block-parser

JavaScript text parser to extract code blocks delimited by character pairs (brackets, braces, quotes, etc).

Block-parser skips over any commented sections and locates the complete first code block it can find.

Installation

npm install --save block-parser

Usage

const parser = require('block-parser')();
//or
const parser = require('block-parser')({ pairs: "()" });

function my_parser( code_block_start,
                    code_block_end,
                    opening_bracket,
                    closing_bracket) {
    // Do stuff
}

my_parser(...parser.find(my_text));

// or

function my_parser(prefix_string, code_block, postfix_string) {
    if (code_block) {
        // Do stuff
    } else {
        // no code block was found, the complete input string is available in
        // `prefix_string`
    }
}

my_parser(...parser.get(my_text));

Configuration options

Option|Default|Description ----|---|--- pairs|"{}"|Code block delimiter pairs. quotes|"\"\"''``“”‘’””«»「」"| String of quotation character pairs.

Notes and license

This project is available on GitHub and npm.

The project is licensed as LGPL v3.0 and may be freely used and distributed as such.

Copyright 2016 Stefan Hamminga - prjct.net