Matches

Validates if a value matches any one of a set of specified values.

Installation

$ npm install validate.io-matches

For use in the browser, use browserify.

Usage

var matches = require( 'validate.io-matches' );

matches( value, options )

Validates if a value matches any one of a set of specified values.

var value = 'c',
	options = 'a,b,c,d,e';

var bool = matches( value, options );
// returns true

Notes

• This method applies only to string and number value types. For any other type, the method returns false.
• numeric values are converted to strings.
• The list of acceptable matches should be serialized as a comma-delimited string.

Examples

console.log( matches( 'beep', 'beep,boop,bop' ) );
// returns true

var opts = [1,3,5,7,9];
console.log( matches( 5, opts.join(',') ) );
// returns true

console.log( matches( 'bap', 'beep,boop,bop' ) );
// returns false

To run the example code from the top-level application directory,

$ node ./examples/index.js

Tests

Unit

Unit tests use the Mocha test framework with Chai assertions. To run the tests, execute the following command in the top-level application directory:

$ make test

All new feature development should have corresponding unit tests to validate correct functionality.

Test Coverage

This repository uses Istanbul as its code coverage tool. To generate a test coverage report, execute the following command in the top-level application directory:

$ make test-cov

Istanbul creates a ./reports/coverage directory. To access an HTML version of the report,

$ make view-cov

License

MIT license.

Copyright

Copyright © 2014. Athan Reines.