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var bodyRegExp = /function[\\s]+[(].+[)][\\s]+{(.+)}/;
bodyRegExp.exec("module.exports = function () { /* any content */ }");
It doesn’t work. Why is it broken?
It’s meant to pull the body of the function statement out of the source code.
Edit:
I’m being stupid. Trying to parse javascript with a regexp is stupid.
you cannot use regular expressions to parse JavaScript language syntax because the grammar for that language is too complex for what regex can do.