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						- # ansi-regex
 - 
 - > Regular expression for matching [ANSI escape codes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code)
 - 
 - 
 - ## Install
 - 
 - ```
 - $ npm install ansi-regex
 - ```
 - 
 - 
 - ## Usage
 - 
 - ```js
 - const ansiRegex = require('ansi-regex');
 - 
 - ansiRegex().test('\u001B[4mcake\u001B[0m');
 - //=> true
 - 
 - ansiRegex().test('cake');
 - //=> false
 - 
 - '\u001B[4mcake\u001B[0m'.match(ansiRegex());
 - //=> ['\u001B[4m', '\u001B[0m']
 - 
 - '\u001B[4mcake\u001B[0m'.match(ansiRegex({onlyFirst: true}));
 - //=> ['\u001B[4m']
 - 
 - '\u001B]8;;https://github.com\u0007click\u001B]8;;\u0007'.match(ansiRegex());
 - //=> ['\u001B]8;;https://github.com\u0007', '\u001B]8;;\u0007']
 - ```
 - 
 - 
 - ## API
 - 
 - ### ansiRegex(options?)
 - 
 - Returns a regex for matching ANSI escape codes.
 - 
 - #### options
 - 
 - Type: `object`
 - 
 - ##### onlyFirst
 - 
 - Type: `boolean`<br>
 - Default: `false` *(Matches any ANSI escape codes in a string)*
 - 
 - Match only the first ANSI escape.
 - 
 - 
 - ## FAQ
 - 
 - ### Why do you test for codes not in the ECMA 48 standard?
 - 
 - Some of the codes we run as a test are codes that we acquired finding various lists of non-standard or manufacturer specific codes. We test for both standard and non-standard codes, as most of them follow the same or similar format and can be safely matched in strings without the risk of removing actual string content. There are a few non-standard control codes that do not follow the traditional format (i.e. they end in numbers) thus forcing us to exclude them from the test because we cannot reliably match them.
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 - On the historical side, those ECMA standards were established in the early 90's whereas the VT100, for example, was designed in the mid/late 70's. At that point in time, control codes were still pretty ungoverned and engineers used them for a multitude of things, namely to activate hardware ports that may have been proprietary. Somewhere else you see a similar 'anarchy' of codes is in the x86 architecture for processors; there are a ton of "interrupts" that can mean different things on certain brands of processors, most of which have been phased out.
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 - 
 - ## Maintainers
 - 
 - - [Sindre Sorhus](https://github.com/sindresorhus)
 - - [Josh Junon](https://github.com/qix-)
 - 
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