stringJect

Multi-line String Manipulation with Fluent style API for NodeJS

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Install

npm i -s stringject

Usage

var stringJect=require('stringjector');

new stringJect('./sample.txt','this is good').replace('this is better').saveSync();


//Fluent Style
new stringJect('./sample.txt','this is bad')
            .before('this is better')
            .after('this is worse')
            .replace('confused')
            .delete()
            .saveSync();


//Compare existence of predicate
var e = new stringJect('./sample.txt','this is bad').find(); //returns true/false

//delete a all lines between :
new stringJect('./sample.txt','this is bad').deleteUntill('this is done').saveSync(); 

//INsert after 2 lines of predicate
new stringJect('./sample.txt','this is good',2).replace('this is better').saveSync();

Insert multiple lines by placing \n

Reference

1. new stringJect(<filePath>,<Predicate to Search>,[<Offset line numbers>])
2. .before(string)
3. .after(string)
4. .replace(string)
5. .delete([number of lines])
6. .deleteUntil(string)
7. .find()
8. .save(callback)
9. .saveSync()

new stringJect() constructor takes a file path as first argument and keyword/predicate to search for as seond argument. This return a stringJect object, which can be used to chain other methods upon. This optionally takes a third parameter(Number) which is no. of lines to offset.

License

MIT