feat: support string properties

Such as `undefsafe(v, 'a["b.c"].d.e')`

Author: remy

lib/undefsafe.js

@@ -1,7 +1,43 @@
 'use strict';
 
 function undefsafe(obj, path, value) {
-  var parts = path.split('.');
+
+  // I'm not super keen on this private function, but it's because
+  // it'll also be use in the browser and I wont *one* function exposed
+  function split(path) {
+    var res = [];
+    var level = 0;
+    var key = '';
+
+    for (var i = 0; i < path.length; i++) {
+      var c = path.substr(i, 1);
+
+      if (level === 0 && (c === '.' || c === '[')) {
+        if (c === '[') {
+          level++;
+          i++;
+          c = path.substr(i, 1);
+        }
+        res.push(key);
+        key = '';
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      if (c === ']') {
+        level--;
+        key = key.slice(0, -1);
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      key += c;
+    }
+
+    res.push(key);
+
+    return res;
+  }
+
+  var parts = split(path);
   var key = null;
   var type = typeof obj;
   var root = obj;

test/undefsafe.test.js

@@ -41,6 +41,35 @@ test('should handle null properties', function (t) {
   t.end();
 });
 
+test('should find properties with periods in them', function (t) {
+  var value = {
+    a: { 'one.two': true }
+  };
+
+  var r = undefsafe(value, 'a["one.two"]');
+  t.equal(r, true, 'a["one.two"]: ' + r);
+
+  value = {
+    a: { 'one.two.and\three': true }
+  };
+
+  r = undefsafe(value, `a['one.two.and\three']`);
+  t.equal(r, true, 'weird: ' + r);
+
+  value = {
+    a: { 'one.two.and\three': [
+      false,
+      true,
+    ] }
+  };
+
+  r = undefsafe(value, `a['one.two.and\three'].1`);
+  t.equal(r, true, 'combo: ' + r);
+
+  t.end();
+});
+
+
 test('should find deep object properties', function (t) {
   var value = {
     a: {