anymatch [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/micromatch/anymatch.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/micromatch/anymatch) [![Coverage Status](https://img.shields.io/coveralls/micromatch/anymatch.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/r/micromatch/anymatch?branch=master) ====== Javascript module to match a string against a regular expression, glob, string, or function that takes the string as an argument and returns a truthy or falsy value. The matcher can also be an array of any or all of these. Useful for allowing a very flexible user-defined config to define things like file paths. __Note: This module has Bash-parity, please be aware that Windows-style backslashes are not supported as separators. See https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch#backslashes for more information.__ [![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/anymatch.png?downloads=true&downloadRank=true&stars=true)](https://nodei.co/npm/anymatch/) [![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm-dl/anymatch.png?height=3&months=9)](https://nodei.co/npm-dl/anymatch/) Usage ----- ```sh npm install anymatch --save ``` #### anymatch (matchers, testString, [returnIndex], [startIndex], [endIndex]) * __matchers__: (_Array|String|RegExp|Function_) String to be directly matched, string with glob patterns, regular expression test, function that takes the testString as an argument and returns a truthy value if it should be matched, or an array of any number and mix of these types. * __testString__: (_String|Array_) The string to test against the matchers. If passed as an array, the first element of the array will be used as the `testString` for non-function matchers, while the entire array will be applied as the arguments for function matchers. * __returnIndex__: (_Boolean [optional]_) If true, return the array index of the first matcher that that testString matched, or -1 if no match, instead of a boolean result. * __startIndex, endIndex__: (_Integer [optional]_) Can be used to define a subset out of the array of provided matchers to test against. Can be useful with bound matcher functions (see below). When used with `returnIndex = true` preserves original indexing. Behaves the same as `Array.prototype.slice` (i.e. includes array members up to, but not including endIndex). ```js var anymatch = require('anymatch'); var matchers = [ 'path/to/file.js', 'path/anyjs/**/*.js', /foo\.js$/, function (string) { return string.indexOf('bar') !== -1 && string.length > 10 } ]; anymatch(matchers, 'path/to/file.js'); // true anymatch(matchers, 'path/anyjs/baz.js'); // true anymatch(matchers, 'path/to/foo.js'); // true anymatch(matchers, 'path/to/bar.js'); // true anymatch(matchers, 'bar.js'); // false // returnIndex = true anymatch(matchers, 'foo.js', true); // 2 anymatch(matchers, 'path/anyjs/foo.js', true); // 1 // skip matchers anymatch(matchers, 'path/to/file.js', false, 1); // false anymatch(matchers, 'path/anyjs/foo.js', true, 2, 3); // 2 anymatch(matchers, 'path/to/bar.js', true, 0, 3); // -1 // using globs to match directories and their children anymatch('node_modules', 'node_modules'); // true anymatch('node_modules', 'node_modules/somelib/index.js'); // false anymatch('node_modules/**', 'node_modules/somelib/index.js'); // true anymatch('node_modules/**', '/absolute/path/to/node_modules/somelib/index.js'); // false anymatch('**/node_modules/**', '/absolute/path/to/node_modules/somelib/index.js'); // true ``` #### anymatch (matchers) You can also pass in only your matcher(s) to get a curried function that has already been bound to the provided matching criteria. This can be used as an `Array.prototype.filter` callback. ```js var matcher = anymatch(matchers); matcher('path/to/file.js'); // true matcher('path/anyjs/baz.js', true); // 1 matcher('path/anyjs/baz.js', true, 2); // -1 ['foo.js', 'bar.js'].filter(matcher); // ['foo.js'] ``` Change Log ---------- [See release notes page on GitHub](https://github.com/micromatch/anymatch/releases) NOTE: As of v2.0.0, [micromatch](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/micromatch) moves away from minimatch-parity and inline with Bash. This includes handling backslashes differently (see https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch#backslashes for more information). NOTE: As of v1.2.0, anymatch uses [micromatch](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/micromatch) for glob pattern matching. Issues with glob pattern matching should be reported directly to the [micromatch issue tracker](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/micromatch/issues). License ------- [ISC](https://raw.github.com/micromatch/anymatch/master/LICENSE)