https://github.com/micromatch/is-extglob
Returns true if a string has an extglob
https://github.com/micromatch/is-extglob
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Returns true if a string has an extglob
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/micromatch/is-extglob
- Owner: micromatch
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-03-06T21:00:31.000Z (about 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-05-25T08:53:08.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-06-01T09:59:25.460Z (10 months ago)
- Topics: extended-glob, extended-globbing, extglob, extglob-pattern, glob, glob-pattern, globbing, javascript, jonschlinkert, node
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
- Size: 15.6 KB
- Stars: 23
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
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README
# is-extglob [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-extglob) [](https://npmjs.org/package/is-extglob) [](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/is-extglob)
> Returns true if a string has an extglob.
## Install
Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/):
```sh
$ npm install is-extglob
```
## Usage
```js
var isExtglob = require('is-extglob');
```
**True**
```js
isExtglob('?(abc)');
isExtglob('@(abc)');
isExtglob('!(abc)');
isExtglob('*(abc)');
isExtglob('+(abc)');
```
**False**
Escaped extglobs:
```js
isExtglob('\\?(abc)');
isExtglob('\\@(abc)');
isExtglob('\\!(abc)');
isExtglob('\\*(abc)');
isExtglob('\\+(abc)');
```
Everything else...
```js
isExtglob('foo.js');
isExtglob('!foo.js');
isExtglob('*.js');
isExtglob('**/abc.js');
isExtglob('abc/*.js');
isExtglob('abc/(aaa|bbb).js');
isExtglob('abc/[a-z].js');
isExtglob('abc/{a,b}.js');
isExtglob('abc/?.js');
isExtglob('abc.js');
isExtglob('abc/def/ghi.js');
```
## History
**v2.0**
Adds support for escaping. Escaped exglobs no longer return true.
## About
### Related projects
* [has-glob](https://www.npmjs.com/package/has-glob): Returns `true` if an array has a glob pattern. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/has-glob "Returns `true` if an array has a glob pattern.")
* [is-glob](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-glob): Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob "Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern. This makes it easy to create code that only uses external modules like node-glob when necessary, resulting in much faster code execution and initialization time, and a bet")
* [micromatch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/micromatch): Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A drop-in replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/micromatch "Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A drop-in replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch.")
### Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new).
### Building docs
_(This document was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme) (a [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb) generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in [.verb.md](.verb.md).)_
To generate the readme and API documentation with [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb):
```sh
$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb
```
### Running tests
Install dev dependencies:
```sh
$ npm install -d && npm test
```
### Author
**Jon Schlinkert**
* [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert)
* [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert)
### License
Copyright © 2016, [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert).
Released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-extglob/blob/master/LICENSE).
***
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