shoetest

Powerful string matching insensitive to diacritics, special characters, symbols and case.

Installation

npm install shoetest --save

Usage

var shoetest = require('shoetest');

var a = 'heļlṏ, wɵrḻɖ!';
var b = 'Algæ Britannicæ';
var c = 'The Crème de la Crème de la Crème!';

shoetest.test('hello world', a);
// -> true

shoetest.test('hello world', [a, b, c]);
// -> true

shoetest.match('Helló (wơrLd)', a);
// -> [ 'heļlṏ, wɵrḻɖ' ]

shoetest.match('algae britannicae', b);
// -> [ 'Algæ Britannicæ' ]

shoetest.match('creme', c);
// -> [ 'Crème', 'Crème', 'Crème' ]

shoetest.replace('creme', '<b>$1</b>', c);
// -> 'The <b>Crème</b> de la <b>Crème</b> de la <b>Crème</b>!'

shoetest.replace('creme', 'Crème fraîche', [a, b, c]);
// -> [ 'heļlṏ, wɵrḻɖ!', 'Algæ Britannicæ', 'The Crème fraîche de la Crème fraîche de la Crème fraîche!' ]

shoetest.simplify('Ƀuffalỗ buḟḟaḻở Ḅuƒfalo ḅuffȃlỗ bufｆalȏ bǖffaḻồ Ƀⓤffalo buƒfalɵ');
// -> 'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo'

shoetest.complexify('This is Mars!');
// -> 'Thíṣ ịṥ Mârs!'

Advanced usage

var options = {
  charCase: true,
  begin: '\\b',
  end: '\\b'
}

shoetest.test('creme de la creme', c, options);
// -> false

shoetest.test('Creme de la Creme', c, options);
// -> true

shoetest.test('Alg', b);
// -> true

shoetest.test('Alg', b, options);
// -> false

Options

options.strict

Type: Boolean Default value: true
Match strictly diacritics. In non strict mode, other special characters can be matched such as s with $ or e with €.

options.diacritics

Type: Boolean Default value: false
Match the diacritics of the query.

options.charCase

Type: Boolean Default value: false
Match the case of the query.

options.symbols

Type: Boolean Default value: false
Match the symbols of the query.

options.whitespaces

Type: Boolean Default value: false
Match the exact whitespaces of the query. For instance, by default, will allow a tabulation instead of a space.

options.boundaries

Type: Boolean Default value: true
Match the word boundaries of the query.

options.begin

Type: String Default value: ``
Add custom regular expression at the beginning of the query. Escape when necessary, e.g. \\b instead of \b.

options.end

Type: String Default value: ``
Add custom regular expression at the end of the query. Escape when necessary, e.g. \\b instead of \b.

Tests

npm test

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. If you add functionality, then please add unit tests to cover it.
If you wish to update the reference list, only add special characters translated to 3 or less basic latin characters.