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							- # emoji-regex [](https://travis-ci.org/mathiasbynens/emoji-regex)
 
- _emoji-regex_ offers a regular expression to match all emoji symbols (including textual representations of emoji) as per the Unicode Standard.
 
- This repository contains a script that generates this regular expression based on [the data from Unicode Technical Report #51](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/unicode-tr51). Because of this, the regular expression can easily be updated whenever new emoji are added to the Unicode standard.
 
- ## Installation
 
- Via [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/):
 
- ```bash
 
- npm install emoji-regex
 
- ```
 
- In [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/):
 
- ```js
 
- const emojiRegex = require('emoji-regex');
 
- // Note: because the regular expression has the global flag set, this module
 
- // exports a function that returns the regex rather than exporting the regular
 
- // expression itself, to make it impossible to (accidentally) mutate the
 
- // original regular expression.
 
- const text = `
 
- \u{231A}: ⌚ default emoji presentation character (Emoji_Presentation)
 
- \u{2194}\u{FE0F}: ↔️ default text presentation character rendered as emoji
 
- \u{1F469}: 👩 emoji modifier base (Emoji_Modifier_Base)
 
- \u{1F469}\u{1F3FF}: 👩🏿 emoji modifier base followed by a modifier
 
- `;
 
- const regex = emojiRegex();
 
- let match;
 
- while (match = regex.exec(text)) {
 
-   const emoji = match[0];
 
-   console.log(`Matched sequence ${ emoji } — code points: ${ [...emoji].length }`);
 
- }
 
- ```
 
- Console output:
 
- ```
 
- Matched sequence ⌚ — code points: 1
 
- Matched sequence ⌚ — code points: 1
 
- Matched sequence ↔️ — code points: 2
 
- Matched sequence ↔️ — code points: 2
 
- Matched sequence 👩 — code points: 1
 
- Matched sequence 👩 — code points: 1
 
- Matched sequence 👩🏿 — code points: 2
 
- Matched sequence 👩🏿 — code points: 2
 
- ```
 
- To match emoji in their textual representation as well (i.e. emoji that are not `Emoji_Presentation` symbols and that aren’t forced to render as emoji by a variation selector), `require` the other regex:
 
- ```js
 
- const emojiRegex = require('emoji-regex/text.js');
 
- ```
 
- Additionally, in environments which support ES2015 Unicode escapes, you may `require` ES2015-style versions of the regexes:
 
- ```js
 
- const emojiRegex = require('emoji-regex/es2015/index.js');
 
- const emojiRegexText = require('emoji-regex/es2015/text.js');
 
- ```
 
- ## Author
 
- | [](https://twitter.com/mathias "Follow @mathias on Twitter") |
 
- |---|
 
- | [Mathias Bynens](https://mathiasbynens.be/) |
 
- ## License
 
- _emoji-regex_ is available under the [MIT](https://mths.be/mit) license.
 
 
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