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						- # balanced-match
 - 
 - Match balanced string pairs, like `{` and `}` or `<b>` and `</b>`. Supports regular expressions as well!
 - 
 - [](http://travis-ci.org/juliangruber/balanced-match)
 - [](https://www.npmjs.org/package/balanced-match)
 - 
 - [](https://ci.testling.com/juliangruber/balanced-match)
 - 
 - ## Example
 - 
 - Get the first matching pair of braces:
 - 
 - ```js
 - var balanced = require('balanced-match');
 - 
 - console.log(balanced('{', '}', 'pre{in{nested}}post'));
 - console.log(balanced('{', '}', 'pre{first}between{second}post'));
 - console.log(balanced(/\s+\{\s+/, /\s+\}\s+/, 'pre  {   in{nest}   }  post'));
 - ```
 - 
 - The matches are:
 - 
 - ```bash
 - $ node example.js
 - { start: 3, end: 14, pre: 'pre', body: 'in{nested}', post: 'post' }
 - { start: 3,
 -   end: 9,
 -   pre: 'pre',
 -   body: 'first',
 -   post: 'between{second}post' }
 - { start: 3, end: 17, pre: 'pre', body: 'in{nest}', post: 'post' }
 - ```
 - 
 - ## API
 - 
 - ### var m = balanced(a, b, str)
 - 
 - For the first non-nested matching pair of `a` and `b` in `str`, return an
 - object with those keys:
 - 
 - * **start** the index of the first match of `a`
 - * **end** the index of the matching `b`
 - * **pre** the preamble, `a` and `b` not included
 - * **body** the match, `a` and `b` not included
 - * **post** the postscript, `a` and `b` not included
 - 
 - If there's no match, `undefined` will be returned.
 - 
 - If the `str` contains more `a` than `b` / there are unmatched pairs, the first match that was closed will be used. For example, `{{a}` will match `['{', 'a', '']` and `{a}}` will match `['', 'a', '}']`.
 - 
 - ### var r = balanced.range(a, b, str)
 - 
 - For the first non-nested matching pair of `a` and `b` in `str`, return an
 - array with indexes: `[ <a index>, <b index> ]`.
 - 
 - If there's no match, `undefined` will be returned.
 - 
 - If the `str` contains more `a` than `b` / there are unmatched pairs, the first match that was closed will be used. For example, `{{a}` will match `[ 1, 3 ]` and `{a}}` will match `[0, 2]`.
 - 
 - ## Installation
 - 
 - With [npm](https://npmjs.org) do:
 - 
 - ```bash
 - npm install balanced-match
 - ```
 - 
 - ## Security contact information
 - 
 - To report a security vulnerability, please use the
 - [Tidelift security contact](https://tidelift.com/security).
 - Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure.
 - 
 - ## License
 - 
 - (MIT)
 - 
 - Copyright (c) 2013 Julian Gruber <julian@juliangruber.com>
 - 
 - Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
 - this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
 - the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
 - use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
 - of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
 - so, subject to the following conditions:
 - 
 - The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
 - copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 - 
 - THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 - IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 - FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 - AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 - LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 - OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 - SOFTWARE.
 
 
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