Awesome

Regular expression (Regex) for matching github shorthand (user/repo#branch).

Install

npm i --save github-short-url-regex
npm test

Support

• github shorthands mochajs/mocha#master
  • where thing after hash (#) represent release, tag or branch
• npm shorthands gulpjs/gulp@v3.8.10

githubShortUrlRegex

Find github shorthand url (user/repo#branch)

• [options] {Object}
  • flags {String} every valid RegExp flag, default undefined
  • exact {Boolean}
• return {RegExp}

Usage

For more use-cases see the tests

var regex = require('github-short-url-regex');

regex().test('gh tunnckoCore/npmls#master here');
//=> false

regex({flags: 'g'}).test('gh tunnckoCore/npmls#master here');
//=> false

regex({flags: 'g', exact: false}).test('gh tunnckoCore/npmls#master here');
//=> true

regex({flags: 'g', exact: true}).test('gh tunnckoCore/npmls#master here');
//=> false

'gh tunnckoCore/npmls#test here user/repo#branch yea'.match(regex({flags: 'g'}));
//=> null

'gh tunnckoCore/npmls#test here user/repo#branch yea'.match(regex({flags: 'g', exact: false}));
//=> ['tunnckoCore/npmls#test', 'user/repo#branch']

'gh tunnckoCore/npmls#test here user/repo#branch yea'.match(regex({exact: false}))[0];
//=> 'tunnckoCore/npmls#test'

'gh tunnckoCore/npmls#test here user/repo#branch yea'.match(regex({exact: true}));
//=> null

'tunnckoCore/npmls#test'.match(regex({exact: true}))[0];
//=> 'tunnckoCore/npmls#test'

Related

• regex-cache: Memoize the results of a call to the RegExp constructor, avoiding repetitious runtime compilation of the same string and options, resulting in dramatic speed improvements.
• utils: Fast, generic JavaScript/node.js utility functions.
• helper-related: Template helper for generating a list of links to the homepages of related GitHub/npm projects.

Author

Charlike Mike Reagent

• gratipay/tunnckoCore
• twitter/tunnckoCore
• github/tunnckoCore
• npmjs/tunnckoCore
• more ...

License

Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Charlike Mike Reagent, contributors.
Released under the MIT license.

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