📝✏️string-replace-enhanced

A package to go further with string replace

string-replace-enhanced allow you to go futher with the command replace for string in javascript. You have two options, use the object and implement his settings or use the functions in a standalone way.

Installation

Using npm:

npm install -S string-replace-enhanced

... and then:

import stringReplaceEnhanced from 'string-replace-enhanced'
//  or
import {replaceBefore, replaceAfter, replaceAround, replace, replaceRegex} from 'string-replace-enhanced'
//  or
const {default: stringReplaceEnhanced} = require('string-replace-enhanced')

In NodeJS:

const {default : stringReplaceEnhanced} = require('string-replace-enhanced')
//  or
import {replaceBefore, replaceAfter, replaceAround, replace, replaceRegex} from 'string-replace-enhanced'

In a browser:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/string-replace-enhanced@latest/lib/sre.min.js"></script>
<script>
  /* stringReplaceEnhanced is available here */
  /* in object style */

  new StringReplaceEnhanced.default(options) //constructor

  /* standalone functions */

  StringReplaceEnhanced.replace(...args) //function
</script>

Usage

There is two possibilities, use the object ou the separated functions.

Object

With the object it will be possible to reuse a preset configuration or use the default one.

import stringReplaceEnhanced from 'string-replace-enhanced'

// If an option is missing, it will be given a default value
const options =  {
  after: ['«'],
  around: [],
  before: ['!', '?', ':', ';', '»'],
  regex: [],
  replacer: ' ',
  toReplace: ' ',
};

// Create a new stringReplaceEnhanced object
const sre = new stringReplaceEnhanced(options);

// Use its methods simply giving the string to work on
console.log(sre.replaceBefore('Hello world !'));
// Hello world !

Functions

For the standalone functions you will need to specify every arguments

import { replaceBefore } from 'string-replace-enhanced'

console.log(replaceBefore('Hello world !', ' ', ' '))
// Hello world !

Options

Check the links below to have the up to date version:

• All options are documented in here

• The default object implementation's settings is here

name	type	default	description
after	ReadonlyArray or string	['«']	Array of char in need of potential need of replacement after itself
around	ReadonlyArray or string	[]	Array of char in need of potential need of replacement around itself
before	ReadonlyArray or string	['!', '?', ':', ';', '»']	Array of char in need of potential need of replacement before itself
regex	ReadonlyArray or RegExp	[]	Array of regex, replace match by the replacer
replacer	string	' '	Replacer of matching toReplace
toReplace	string	' '	String to replace, in the function replace toReplace can be an array of string

Properties and methods

To see more about the methods and properties you can access to the documentation here

Documentation

To see more about the functions or the configuration you can access it in the latest documentation here or one in the forked project:

npm i && npm run build:doc

The documentation will be available in the docs file.