node-children {treesitter}

Get a node's children

Description

These functions return the children of x within a list.

• node_children() considers both named and anonymous children.

• node_named_children() considers only named children.

Usage

node_children(x)

node_named_children(x)

Arguments

x

⁠[tree_sitter_node]⁠

A node.

Value

The children of x as a list.

Examples

language <- treesitter.r::language()
parser <- parser(language)

text <- "fn <- function() { 1 + 1 }"
tree <- parser_parse(parser, text)
node <- tree_root_node(tree)

# Navigate to first child
node <- node_child(node, 1)
node

# Note how the named variant doesn't include the anonymous operator node
node_children(node)
node_named_children(node)