linez

Parses lines from text, preserving line numbers, offsets and line endings.

Getting Started

Installation

$ npm install linez

Importing

TypeScript

import * as linez from 'linez';

Babel/ES6+

import linez from 'linez';

JavaScript

var linez = require('linez');

Introduction

By default, linez uses /\r?\n/g as the regular expression to detect newline character sequences and split lines. This regular expression is tuned for performance and only covers the most common newline types (i.e., \n and \r\n). If you have need for more newline character sequences, you can configure linez with the configure method.

linez.configure({
  newlines: ['\n', '\r\n', '\r', '\u000B']
});

Setting this property will automatically create a piped regular expression for you and use it in any future linez() calls. You can make up your own newlines if you want. Linez doesn't care one way or the other.

linez.configure({
  newlines: ['foo', 'bar']
});

This would be converted into /(foo|bar)/g. Newlines are just strings. They can be anything. There are, however, some known newline character sequences. Should you need them, refer to the following table:

String	Unicode	Name
\n	U+000A	Line feed
\r\n	U+000D, U+000A	Carriage Return + Line Feed
\r	U+000D	Carriage Return
\u000B	U+000B	Vertical Tab
\u000C	U+000C	Form Feed
\u0085	U+0085	Next Line
\u2028	U+2028	Line Separator
\u2029	U+2029	Paragraph Separator

Byte Order Marks

Also referred to as BOM signatures, these are the bytes at the beginning of a file that indicating the encoding in which the file is written. Currently, linez only reads BOMs to detect the encoding and does not take into account the contents of the file.

Supported BOMs

• utf-8-bom
• utf-16le
• utf-16be

Unsupported BOMs

• utf-32le
• utf-32be

If linez detects an unsupported BOM, an error will be thrown, indicating that decoding the detected charset is not supported.

Default decoding

By default, the document will attempt to be decoded as utf8. This is the default behavior of the Node API's conversion from buffers into strings.

API

configure(options: IOptions)

Configures linez to use the supplied options. Currently, only the newlines property is available, where you can specify any number of newline character sequences.

linez.configure({
  newlines: ['\n', '\r\n', '\r', '\u000B']
});

resetConfiguration()

Resets the configuration to the default settings, using /\r?\n/g as the newlines regular expression.

Document

constructor(public lines: Line[]);

Calling the toString() method converts the document's lines into a string, discarding information about line numbers and offsets.

Line

interface Line {
  offset: number;
  number: number;
  text: string;
  ending: string;
}

Options

interface Options {
  newlines?: string[];
}

linez(file: string|Buffer): Document

Parses text into a Document.

The specs show some great usage examples.

var lines = linez('foo\nbar\nbaz').lines;
lines[1].offset; // 4
lines[1].number; // 2
lines[1].text; // bar
lines[1].ending; // \n

Note: You can also pass-in a Buffer.

License

Released under the MIT license.