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gdebenito profile image
Gonzalo • • Edited

Hey! Thanks to you I made something!! A regex to detect uncommented console.log()!! What do you think?

const regEx = /^(?!.*\/\/)(?=.*console\.log)/g
const examples = [
    '  // console.log("asdf")',
    '  //        console.log("asdf")',
    '  //        console.log("asdf")',
    '       console.log("asdf")   ',
    '       console.log(',
]

examples.forEach(
    (example) => {
        console.log(
            example,
            example.match(regEx) !== null
        )
    }
)

And the output:

  // console.log("asdf") false
  //        console.log("asdf") false
  //        console.log("asdf") false
       console.log("asdf")    true
       console.log( true
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savagepixie profile image
SavagePixie •

That's pretty cool! I imagine something like this would be useful to comment console.logs once you're done debugging.

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moopet profile image
Ben Sinclair •

Your next goal is to get it to work with these :)

console.log("foo"); // console.log("bar");

/*****
* console.log("baz");
*****/

console.table(['foo', 'bar']);