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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 v12](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/unicode-12.0.0). 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/):
```bashnpm install emoji-regex```
In [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/):
```jsconst 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: 1Matched sequence ⌚ — code points: 1Matched sequence ↔️ — code points: 2Matched sequence ↔️ — code points: 2Matched sequence 👩 — code points: 1Matched sequence 👩 — code points: 1Matched sequence 👩🏿 — code points: 2Matched 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:
```jsconst emojiRegex = require('emoji-regex/text.js');```
Additionally, in environments which support ES2015 Unicode escapes, you may `require` ES2015-style versions of the regexes:
```jsconst 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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