Near-RegEx

Near-RegEx is a tool to make matching user inputs easier than ever before. Users may try to evade filters or simply "be cool" and use nonstandard variations of a character. You shouldn't need to write RegEx for every possibility, so Near-RegEx does it for you from an exhaustive list of possibilities

Install

npm install near-regex

Usage

const pattern = NearMatch("near-regex"); // creates a RegEx formatted string to match hundreds of possible variations
const regex = new RegExp(pattern, "i"); // turn the string pattern into a regular expression and add in additional string without near matching you want
console.log(regex.test("Ṋ34Ꝛ-ℛɇℊ℮ℵ")); // watch in wonder as the Near-RegEx finds matches you couldn't have otherwises

Type of output

NearMatch returns a string output with all variations of a character within a range. For example, "[hⒽⓗ⒣HhḢḣḤḥḦḧḨḩḪḫĤĥȞȟĦħⱧⱨꜦℍǶẖℏℎℋℌꜧ]" would be the result of "h". Characters without recorded variants such as numbers and punctuation are left as-is. Characters detected as escaped are not matched for variants and appear in the output as they were in the input

Some characters are missing??

There are, undoubtably, missing characters. Lists of characters, if extensive, should be submitted in an issue. Complaints not accompanied by a list of missing characters will be ignored