regjsgen

Generate regular expressions from regjsparser’s AST.

Installation

npm i regjsgen

API

regjsgen.generate(ast)

This function accepts an abstract syntax tree representing a regular expression (see regjsparser), and returns the generated regular expression string.

const regjsparser = require('regjsparser');
const regjsgen = require('regjsgen');

// Generate an AST with `regjsparser`.
let ast = regjsparser.parse(regex);

// Modify AST
// …

// Generate `RegExp` string with `regjsgen`.
let regex = regjsgen.generate(ast);

Support

Tested in Node.js 0.10, 0.12, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14. Compatible with regjsparser v0.6.4’s AST.