hardlounge/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/findChannels.js

"use strict";

// Escapes the RegExp special characters "^", "$", "", ".", "*", "+", "?", "(",
// ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", and "|" in string.
// See https://lodash.com/docs/#escapeRegExp
const escapeRegExp = require("lodash/escapeRegExp");

// Given an array of channel prefixes (such as "#" and "&") and an array of user
// modes (such as "@" and "+"), this function extracts channels and nicks from a
// text.
// It returns an array of objects for each channel found with their start index,
// end index and channel name.
function findChannels(text, channelPrefixes, userModes) {
	// `userModePattern` is necessary to ignore user modes in /whois responses.
	// For example, a voiced user in #thelounge will have a /whois response of:
	// > foo is on the following channels: +#thelounge
	// We need to explicitly ignore user modes to parse such channels correctly.
	const userModePattern = userModes.map(escapeRegExp).join("");
	const channelPrefixPattern = channelPrefixes.map(escapeRegExp).join("");
	const channelPattern = `(?:^|\\s)[${userModePattern}]*([${channelPrefixPattern}][^ \u0007]+)`;
	const channelRegExp = new RegExp(channelPattern, "g");

	const result = [];
	let match;

	do {
		// With global ("g") regexes, calling `exec` multiple times will find
		// successive matches in the same string.
		match = channelRegExp.exec(text);

		if (match) {
			result.push({
				start: match.index + match[0].length - match[1].length,
				end: match.index + match[0].length,
				channel: match[1],
			});
		}
	} while (match);

	return result;
}

module.exports = findChannels;