bravo

simplified Regular Expression pattern match framework based on RegExp.

Requirements

• Node 0.10+
• Able to write regular expression

Installation

	$ npm install bravo

Run

• HTML input:

• JSON-like configuration file:
  • {expr} represents either regular expression string, or an array composed of : [{ expr:"", g:1},...]
  • {g} represents either the group number of the RegExp; return the all groups if {g} absent; it should not exist when {expr} was an array.
  • {sep} represents a separator be used to concatenate result when {expr} was an array.
  • {replace} is used for result substitution, it could be either an array or an object whose contains two fields : {a} represent source, and {b} represent destination.

{
  "title": {
    "expr": "<title>([^<]+)</title>",
    "g": 1
  },
  "heading": {
    "expr": "<div class=\"wrapper\">\\s+<h1>([^<]+)</h1>",
    "g": 1,
    "replace": [
      {
        "a": "\\\\r\\\\n",
        "b": ""
      },
      {
        "a": "example",
        "b": "awesome"
      }
    ]
  },
  "titleAndheading": {
    "expr": [
      {
        "expr": "<title>([^<]+)</title>",
        "g": 1
      },
      {
        "expr": "<div class=\"wrapper\">\\s+<h1>([^<]+)</h1>",
        "g": 1
      }
    ],
    "sep": " - ",
    "replace": [
      {
        "a": "\\\\r\\\\n",
        "b": ""
      },
      {
        "a": "example",
        "b": "awesome"
      }
    ]
  }
}

• Invocation:

//var html = readFromFile();
var request = require('bravo');
var jsonFile = path.join(process.cwd(), 'example.json');
var obj = bravo.Parse(jsonFile, html);
console.log(obj)
});

• Result is a object which had been defined in the JSON file:

{ title: 'rockdragon/bravo',
  heading: 'awesome repository.',
  titleAndheading: 'rockdragon/bravo - awesome repository.' }

License

MIT