regular expression to extract function body

Question

var bodyRegExp = /function[\\s]+[(].+[)][\\s]+{(.+)}/;



bodyRegExp.exec("module.exports = function () { /* any content */ }");

It doesn't work. Why is it broken?

It's meant to pull the body of the function statement out of the source code.

Edit:

I'm being stupid. Trying to parse javascript with a regexp is stupid.

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Answer 1

you cannot use regular expressions to parse JavaScript language syntax because the grammar for that language is too complex for what regex can do.

regular expression to extract function body

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