A library for detecting the programming language of a code snippet.
npm install lang-detectorlang-detector
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A fast and small library for detecting the programming language of a code snippet.
Can be used for strings of code spanning multiple thousand lines.
This library should only be used if you don't have anything else to go by to determine the language of the code, like a file extension.
Shell
npm install lang-detector --save
`Usage
JavaScript
/**
* function detectLang(snippet, options) { ... }
*
* @snippet {String} The code snippet.
* @options {Object} (Optional) {
* heuristic: {Boolean} Enable heuristic optimisation for better performance. true by default.
* statistics: {Boolean} Return statistics. false by default.
* }
* @return {String} (Name of the detected language) or {Object} (Statistics).
*/
var detectLang = require('lang-detector');detectLang('List things = new ArrayList<>();')
// => 'Java'
detectLang('console.log("Hello world");')
// => 'JavaScript'
detectLang('Hello world.', { statistics: true })
/* => {
"detected": "Unknown",
"statistics": {
"JavaScript": 0,
"C": 0,
"C++": 0,
"Python": 0,
...
"Unknown": 1
}
}
*/
`Unit tests
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