Unicode categories

Unicode categories regExps.

Installation

npm install unicode-categories

Usage

var unicode = require('unicode-categories');
// Tests if text is a valid unicode upper case letter.
var isValidUpperCase = unicode.Lu.test;
// Tests if text is a valid ecmascript identifier.
var isValidIdentifier = unicode.ECMA.identifier.test;

Documentation

Library contains several unicode category regexps. Here's list of them:

(short name, long name: description)

• Lu: upper case letter.
• Ll: lower case letter.
• Lt: title case letter.
• Lm: modifier letter.
• Lo: other letter.
• Mn: non-spacing mark.
• Mc: space mark.
• Nl: number letter.
• Nd: decimal (e.g. 0-9 etc).
• Pc: punctuation connector.

Also, unicode-categories gives you a list of ECMAscript idenfitiers:

• ECMA.start - letter, that identifier starts with. Contains letters from categories (Lu, Ll, Lt, Lm, Lo, Nl). Also it can be $ and _.
• ECMA.part - all ECMA.start letters plus letters from categories Mn, Mc, Nd, Pc.
• ECMA.idenfitier - combination of previous two regexps.

For details, see ECMAscript spec.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Paul Miller (http://paulmillr.com/)

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