gulp-collect-pattern

Extract text by regular expression and collect it in a file with gulp.

Usage

Options

Name | Description --------|--------------------------------------------------------- file | Collect the extracted text in this file. stream | Write the extracted text to this stream. regex | Extract text matching this regular expression. capture | Collect text from capture group instead of entire match.

One of file or stream must be defined. regex is required.

Example

We could, for example, extract all inline style tags and collect the contents into an external css file.

var collect = require("gulp-collect-pattern")
var gulp = require("gulp")

gulp.task("html", function () {
  return gulp.src("*.html")
    .pipe(collect({
      file: "./dist/styles.css",
      regex: /<style>([\s\S]+?)<\/style>/g,
      capture: 1
    }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest("dist"))
})