parse-line

What

Simple package to explode a line.

Why

Usually, I build a command-line app, and I need to parse the input to extract the command with its arguments separated by spaces. You may say string.split(' ')?, totally Nah!, Imagine we are having a discord bot that can handle set-description <descriotion-with-spaces>, and when someone invokes the command by !set-description hello world or !set-description "hello world" with string.split the result will be ['!set-description', 'hello', 'world'] or ['!set-description', '"hello', 'world"'] and we want it to be ['!set-description', 'hello world']. Tedious to solve it every time you make a bot in order to obtain a valid argument. So I built this package to help me avoiding repetitive implementation for the same problem, and I don't want to download big size generic use package in order to achieve this simple task.

Installation

npm install parse-line
or
yarn add parse-line

Example

input line: say "hello world"

const {parseLine, ParseLineOptions} = require('parse-line');

const optionalOptions: ParseLineOptions = {};

console.log(parseLine('say "hello world"', optionalOptions))

//output: `['say', 'hello world']`