// Rather than using a full-blown JavaScript parser, we are going to use a few regular expressions // to tokenize the code and find what we are interested in var tagStartRegExp = /(^\s*(?:(?:exports.(?:tag|TAG))|(?:TAG))\s*=\s*)\{/m; // Tokens: "", '', /*, {, }, ; var tokensRegExp = /"(?:[^"]|\\")*"|'(?:[^'])|(\/\*([^*]|[\r\n]|(\*+([^*/]|[\r\n])))*\*+\/)|(\/\/.*)|[\{\};]/g; function extractTagDef(code) { var startMatches = tagStartRegExp.exec(code); var tagDefStart; var tagDefEnd; if (startMatches) { tagDefStart = startMatches.index + startMatches[1].length; var nextTokenMatches; tokensRegExp.lastIndex = tagDefStart; var depth = 0; while ((nextTokenMatches = tokensRegExp.exec(code))) { if (nextTokenMatches[0] === '{') { depth++; continue; } else if (nextTokenMatches[0] === '}') { if (--depth === 0) { tagDefEnd = tokensRegExp.lastIndex; break; } } else if (nextTokenMatches[0] === ';') { tagDefEnd = nextTokenMatches.index; break; } } if (tagDefStart != null && tagDefEnd != null) { var jsTagDef = code.substring(tagDefStart, tagDefEnd); var tagDefObject = eval('(' + jsTagDef + ')'); return tagDefObject; } } else { return null; } } exports.extractTagDef = extractTagDef;