Regex to match any Javascript/jQuery function declaration line

Question

I have following regex pattern for matching any function declaration of type function funcname() {.

function\s+(.*?)\)\s*{

But sometimes in Javascript/jQuery functions are declared in below ways too:

funcName = function() {

Or

jQuery.fn.funcName = function () {

I don't know how to ORify regex to allow all the above syntaxes to be matched. Braces maybe in nextline acording to code format rules.

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

function.*{|\w* \= function.*{|jquery.*{

The vertical bar character is how you "orify" in regex.

And to deal with multiple lines you need to use the newline selector: \n

For example, to match:

function funcname() {

}

You might use:

function.*\{\n*}