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dirname

Regular expression to capture a POSIX path dirname.

Installation

$ npm install regex-dirname-posix

Usage

var re = require( 'regex-dirname-posix' );

re

Regular expression to capture a POSIX path dirname.

var base = re.exec( 'foo/bar/index.js' )[ 1 ];
// returns 'foo/bar'

Examples

var re = require( 'regex-dirname-posix' );

var dir;

dir = re.exec( 'index.js' )[ 1 ];
console.log( dir );
// returns ''

dir = re.exec( '.' )[ 1 ];
console.log( dir );
// returns '.'

dir = re.exec( './' )[ 1 ];
console.log( dir );
// returns '.'

dir = re.exec( '/foo/bar/home.html' )[ 1 ];
console.log( dir );
// returns '/foo/bar'

dir = re.exec( 'foo/file.pdf' )[ 1 ];
console.log( dir );
// returns 'foo'

dir = re.exec( 'beep.' )[ 1 ];
console.log( dir );
// returns ''

dir = re.exec( '' )[ 1 ];
console.log( dir );
// returns ''

dir = re.exec( '/foo/bar/file' )[ 1 ];
console.log( dir );
// returns '/foo/bar'

dir = re.exec( './foo/bar/.gitignore' )[ 1 ];
console.log( dir );
// returns './foo/bar'

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.

regex-dirname-posix

Usage no npm install needed!