author-regex

Regular expression for parsing an author string into an object following npm conventions.

This the regex used by parse-authors.

Related

• parse-author
• parse-authors

Install

Install with npm

npm i author-regex --save

Install with bower

bower install author-regex --save

Tests

Run

npm test

Usage

var re = require('author-regex');

function authors(str) {
  return re().exec(str);
}
console.log(author('Jon Schlinkert <foo@bar.com> (https://github.com/jonschlinkert)'));

Returns:

[ 'Jon Schlinkert <foo@bar.com> (https://github.com/jonschlinkert)',
  'Jon Schlinkert',
  'foo@bar.com',
  'https://github.com/jonschlinkert',
  index: 0,
  input: 'Jon Schlinkert <foo@bar.com> (https://github.com/jonschlinkert)' ]

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jon Schlinkert, contributors.
Released under the MIT license

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