alias2pkg

Return the package name associated with a specified alias.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/namespace-alias2pkg

Usage

var alias2pkg = require( '@stdlib/namespace-alias2pkg' );

alias2pkg( alias )

Returns the package name associated with a specified alias.

var v = alias2pkg( 'base.sin' );
// returns '@stdlib/math/base/special/sin'

If provided an unrecognized alias, the function returns null.

var v = alias2pkg( 'unrecognized_alias_beep_boop_bop_bip' );
// returns null

Examples

var discreteUniform = require( '@stdlib/random-base-discrete-uniform' );
var aliases = require( '@stdlib/namespace-aliases' );
var alias2pkg = require( '@stdlib/namespace-alias2pkg' );

var list;
var len;
var idx;
var v;
var i;

list = aliases();
len = list.length;

for ( i = 0; i < 100; i++ ) {
    idx = discreteUniform( 0, len-1 );
    v = list[ idx ];
    console.log( 'alias: %s. pkg: %s.', v, alias2pkg( v ) );
}

License

The data files (databases) are licensed under an Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & License 1.0 and their contents are licensed under Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal. The software is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.

See Also

• @stdlib/namespace-alias2pkg-cli: CLI package for use as a command-line utility.
• @stdlib/namespace-alias2related: return aliases related to a specified alias.
• @stdlib/namespace-aliases: standard library aliases.
• @stdlib/namespace-pkg2alias: return the alias associated with a specified package name.

Notice

This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.

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