# is-extglob

> Returns true if a string has an extglob.

Latest version **2.1.1** (published 2016-12-11) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install is-extglob
pnpm add is-extglob
yarn add is-extglob
bun add is-extglob
```

## Health

**Score 23/100 (F)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: has types package; no vulnerabilities; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

Negative: abandoned; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.1.1 |
| Published | 2016-12-11 |
| First published | 2015-03-06 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | separate (@types/is-extglob) |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Node | >=0.10.0 |
| Dependencies | 0 |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 24 |
| Author | Jon Schlinkert |
| Maintainers | jonschlinkert |
| Keywords | bash, braces, check, exec, expression, extglob, glob, globbing, globstar, is, match, matches, pattern, regex, regular, string, test |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-extglob
- Repository: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-extglob
- Issues: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-extglob/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/is-extglob

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## Recent versions

- 2.1.1 (latest) — 2016-12-11
- 2.1.0 — 2016-10-12
- 2.0.0 — 2016-09-03
- 1.0.0 — 2015-03-06

## README

# is-extglob [![NPM version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/is-extglob.svg?style=flat)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-extglob) [![NPM downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/is-extglob.svg?style=flat)](https://npmjs.org/package/is-extglob) [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/jonschlinkert/is-extglob.svg?style=flat)](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 --save 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

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To generate the readme and API documentation with [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb):

```sh
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```

### 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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