Fix pat. or regex starting with '-'

README.md

@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ Please note that the data might look very differently when the files get so larg
 
 ### Future ideas
 
+
 - Test-run a with info outputted about what will happen (sets -t and does not change anything)
 - Let search and replace be withing the names of the files (ask for overwriting. -Y = no questions)
 - Let search and replace be within the path of the files (ask for overwriting. -Y = no questions)
@@ -188,7 +189,9 @@ Please note that the data might look very differently when the files get so larg
 - Flag for simple string search (all other chars than [\n\r\t])
 - Flag for plain string search litteral (no regex, no special chars, no escape chars)
 - Check if https://github.com/eugeneware/replacestream is good to rely on
-
+- Check if regex engine from spidermonkey can be wrapped in someting thatdoes not need node
+- Implement in go, so all platforms can be supported with no need for node (might be based on)
+- let https://github.com/dthree/vorpal deal with the interface?
 
 
 

bin/rexreplace.cli.js

@@ -1,12 +1,28 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 'use strict';
 
-var version = '2.0.4';
+var _slicedToArray = function () { function sliceIterator(arr, i) { var _arr = []; var _n = true; var _d = false; var _e = undefined; try { for (var _i = arr[Symbol.iterator](), _s; !(_n = (_s = _i.next()).done); _n = true) { _arr.push(_s.value); if (i && _arr.length === i) break; } } catch (err) { _d = true; _e = err; } finally { try { if (!_n && _i["return"]) _i["return"](); } finally { if (_d) throw _e; } } return _arr; } return function (arr, i) { if (Array.isArray(arr)) { return arr; } else if (Symbol.iterator in Object(arr)) { return sliceIterator(arr, i); } else { throw new TypeError("Invalid attempt to destructure non-iterable instance"); } }; }();
+
+var version = '2.1.0';
 var fs = require('fs');
 var path = require('path');
 var font = require('chalk');
 var globs = require('globs');
 
+var pattern = void 0,
+    replacement = void 0;
+var helpAndDie = false;
+if (process.argv.length < 4) {
+	helpAndDie = true;
+} else {
+	var _process$argv$splice = process.argv.splice(2, 2);
+
+	var _process$argv$splice2 = _slicedToArray(_process$argv$splice, 2);
+
+	pattern = _process$argv$splice2[0];
+	replacement = _process$argv$splice2[1];
+}
+
 var yargs = require('yargs').strict().usage('RexReplace ' + version + ': Regexp search and replace for files using lookahead and backreference to matching groups in the replacement. Defaults to global multiline case-insensitive search.\n\n> rexreplace searchFor replaceWith filename').example("> rexreplace '(f?(o))o(.*)' '$3$1$2' myfile.md", "'foobar' in myfile.md will become 'barfoo'").example('').example("> rexreplace -I 'Foo' 'xxx' myfile.md", "'foobar' in myfile.md will remain 'foobar'").example('').example('> rexreplace \'^#\' \'##\' *.md', 'All markdown files in this dir got all headlines moved one level deeper').version('v', 'Echo rexreplace version', version).alias('v', 'version').boolean('I').describe('I', 'Void case insensitive search pattern.').alias('I', 'void-ignore-case').boolean('M').describe('M', 'Void multiline search pattern. Makes ^ and $ match start/end of whole content rather than each line.').alias('M', 'void-multiline').boolean('u').describe('u', 'Treat pattern as a sequence of unicode code points.').alias('u', 'unicode').describe('e', 'Encoding of files.').alias('e', 'encoding').default('e', 'utf8').boolean('o').describe('o', 'Output the result instead of saving to file. Will also output content even if no replacement have taken place.').alias('o', 'output')
 //.conflicts('o', 'd')
 
@@ -60,13 +76,13 @@ var args = yargs.argv;
 
 debug(args);
 
-if (args._.length < 3) {
-	die('Need more than 2 arguments', args._.length + ' was found', true);
+if (helpAndDie) {
+	die('Need both pattern and replacement as arguments', true);
 }
 
 if (!args['€']) {
-	args._[0] = args._[0].replace('€', '$');
-	args._[1] = args._[1].replace('€', '$');
+	pattern = pattern.replace('€', '$');
+	replacement = replacement.replace('€', '$');
 }
 
 var flags = 'g';
@@ -83,16 +99,14 @@ if (args.unicode) {
 debug(flags);
 
 // Get regex pattern
-var regex = args._.shift();
+
+var regex = void 0;
 try {
-	regex = new RegExp(regex, flags);
+	regex = new RegExp(pattern, flags);
 } catch (err) {
-	die('Wrong formatted regexp', regex);
+	die('Wrong formatted regexp', err);
 }
 
-// Get replacement
-var replace = args._.shift();
-
 // The rest are files
 var files = globs.sync(args._);
 
@@ -109,7 +123,7 @@ files
 
 // Do the replacement 
 .forEach(function (filepath) {
-	return replaceInFile(filepath, regex, replace, args.encoding);
+	return replaceInFile(filepath, regex, replacement, args.encoding);
 });
 
 function replaceInFile(file, regex, replace, encoding) {

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "rexreplace",
-  "version": "2.0.4",
+  "version": "2.1.0",
   "description": "Friendly CLI regexp search and replace in files.",
   "author": "Mathias Rangel Wulff",
   "license": "MIT",

src/rexreplace.cli.js

@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ const path = require('path');
 const font = require('chalk');
 const globs = require('globs');
 
+let pattern, replacement;
+let helpAndDie = false;
+if(process.argv.length<4){
+	helpAndDie = true;
+} else {
+	[pattern, replacement] = process.argv.splice(2,2);
+}
+
 let yargs = require('yargs')
 	.strict()
 
@@ -129,13 +137,13 @@ const args = yargs.argv;
 
 debug(args);	
 
-if(args._.length<3){
-	die('Need more than 2 arguments',args._.length+' was found',true);
+if(helpAndDie){
+	die('Need both pattern and replacement as arguments',true);
 }
 
 if(!args['€']){
-	args._[0] = args._[0].replace('€','$');
-	args._[1] = args._[1].replace('€','$');
+	pattern = pattern.replace('€','$');
+	replacement = replacement.replace('€','$');
 }
 
 let flags = 'g';
@@ -152,15 +160,15 @@ if(args.unicode){
 debug(flags);
 
 // Get regex pattern
-let regex = args._.shift();
+
+let regex;
 try{
-	regex = new RegExp(regex,flags);
+	regex = new RegExp(pattern,flags);
 } catch (err){
-	die('Wrong formatted regexp', regex);
+	die('Wrong formatted regexp', err);
 }
 
-// Get replacement
-const replace = args._.shift();
+
 
 // The rest are files
 const files = globs.sync(args._);
@@ -173,7 +181,7 @@ files
 	.filter(filepath=>fs.existsSync(filepath)?true:error('File not found:',filepath))
 
 	// Do the replacement 
-	.forEach(filepath=>replaceInFile(filepath,regex,replace,args.encoding))
+	.forEach(filepath=>replaceInFile(filepath,regex,replacement,args.encoding))
 ;
 
 

test/test.sh

@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ reset
 rexreplace o x myfile
 assert		 		"cat myfile"    "fxxbar"
 
+# rr can handle a pattern and replcaement starting with '-'
+reset
+rexreplace '^(.+)$' '- $1' myfile
+rexreplace '- f' '_' myfile
+assert		 		"cat myfile"    "_oobar"
 
 # -v
 reset