diacritic-regex-helper

A small node.js module that helps to find strings containing diacritics with regular expressions. Useful for accentued search in MongoDB.

Installation

$ npm install diacritic-regex-helper

Usage

JS :

var diacriticHelper = require("diacritic-regex-helper");

var toFind = "noel";
var txt = "Vive le Père-Noël !";

// Without diactric-helper
var result1 = txt.replace(new RegExp("noel","gi"), "Fouettard")
console.log(result1);

// With diactric-helper
var result2 = txt.replace(new RegExp(diacriticHelper(toFind),"gi"), "Fouettard")
console.log(result2);

Console output :

Vive le Père-Noël !
Vive le Père-Fouettard !

MIT Licensed

Disclaimer

This package is exactly the same as this one by steevelefort. For some reason it was making Meteor apps to throw an error so I decided to publish it again and now it's working ok. All the credit goes to steevelefort.