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posix-character-classes
README.md
posix-character-classes    
POSIX character classes for creating regular expressions.
Install
Install with npm:
sh $ npm install --save posix-character-classes
Install with yarn:
sh $ yarn add posix-character-classes
Usage
js var posix = require('posix-character-classes'); console.log(posix.alpha); //=> 'A-Za-z'
POSIX Character classes
The POSIX standard supports the following classes or categories of charactersh (note that classes must be defined within brackets)<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">[1]</a></sup>:
POSIX class | Equivalent to | Matches | |
---|---|---|---|
[:alnum:] | [A-Za-z0-9] | digits, uppercase and lowercase letters | |
[:alpha:] | [A-Za-z] | upper- and lowercase letters | |
[:ascii:] | [\x00-\x7F] | ASCII characters | |
[:blank:] | [ \t] | space and TAB characters only | |
[:cntrl:] | [\x00-\x1F\x7F] | Control characters | |
[:digit:] | [0-9] | digits | |
[:graph:] | [^[:cntrl:]] | graphic characters (all characters which have graphic representation) | |
[:lower:] | [a-z] | lowercase letters | |
[:print:] | ` | graphic characters and space | |
[:punct:] | `[-!"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@[]^_{ | }~]`` | all punctuation characters (all graphic characters except letters and digits) |
[:space:] | [ \t\n\r\f\v] | all blank (whitespace) characters, including spaces, tabs, new lines, carriage returns, form feeds, and vertical tabs | |
[:upper:] | [A-Z] | uppercase letters | |
[:word:] | [A-Za-z0-9_] | word characters | |
[:xdigit:] | [0-9A-Fa-f] | hexadecimal digits | |
Examples
- a[[:digit:]]b matches a0b, a1b, ..., a9b.
- a[:digit:]b is invalid, character classes must be enclosed in brackets
- [[:digit:]abc] matches any digit, as well as a, b, and c.
- [abc[:digit:]] is the same as the previous, matching any digit, as well as a, b, and c
- [^ABZ[:lower:]] matches any character except lowercase letters, A, B, and Z.
About
Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new).
Building docs
_(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the [.verb.md](.verb.md) readme template.)_
To generate the readme, run the following command:
sh $ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb
Running tests
Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:
sh $ npm install && npm test
Author
Jon Schlinkert
License
Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the [MIT License](LICENSE).
_This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.5.0, on April 20, 2017._
<hr class="footnotes-sep"> <section class="footnotes"> <ol class="footnotes-list"> <li id="fn1" class="footnote-item">table and examples are based on the WikiBooks page for Regular Expressions/POSIX Basic Regular Expressions, which is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. <a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-backref">↩</a>
</li> </ol> </section>