Dirname

Regular expression to capture a Windows path dirname.

Usage

var reDirnameWindows = require( '@stdlib/regexp/dirname-windows' );

reDirnameWindows()

Returns a regular expression to capture a Windows path dirname.

var RE_DIRNAME_WINDOWS = reDirnameWindows();
var dir = RE_DIRNAME_WINDOWS.exec( 'foo\\bar\\index.js' )[ 1 ];
// returns 'foo\\bar'

reDirnameWindows.REGEXP

Regular expression to capture a Windows path dirname.

var dir = reDirnameWindows.REGEXP.exec( 'foo\\bar\\index.js' )[ 1 ];
// returns 'foo\\bar'

Examples

var reDirnameWindows = require( '@stdlib/regexp/dirname-windows' );

var RE_DIRNAME_WINDOWS = reDirnameWindows();
var dir;

dir = RE_DIRNAME_WINDOWS.exec( 'index.js' )[ 1 ];
// returns ''

dir = RE_DIRNAME_WINDOWS.exec( 'C:\\foo\\bar\\home.html' )[ 1 ];
// returns 'C:\\foo\\bar'

dir = RE_DIRNAME_WINDOWS.exec( 'foo\\file.pdf' )[ 1 ];
// returns 'foo'

dir = RE_DIRNAME_WINDOWS.exec( 'beep\\boop.' )[ 1 ];
// returns 'beep'

dir = RE_DIRNAME_WINDOWS.exec( '' )[ 1 ];
// returns ''

dir = RE_DIRNAME_WINDOWS.exec( '\\foo\\bar\\file' )[ 1 ];
// returns '\\foo\\bar'

dir = RE_DIRNAME_WINDOWS.exec( 'C:\\foo\\bar\\.gitignore' )[ 1 ];
// returns 'C:\\foo\\bar'