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Programming language: JavaScript

License: MIT License

Tags: Ansi Command Line Utilities Unicode String Console Str Terminal CLI Character Column Fixed-width Korean Japanese Chinese Cjk Command-line Char Codes Escape Full Full-width Fullwidth Columns Visual Width

Latest version: v4.2.0

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string-width

Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it

Some Unicode characters are fullwidth and use double the normal width. ANSI escape codes are stripped and doesn't affect the width.

Useful to be able to measure the actual width of command-line output.

Install

$ npm install string-width

Usage

import stringWidth from 'string-width';

stringWidth('a');
//=> 1

stringWidth('古');
//=> 2

stringWidth('\u001B[1m古\u001B[22m');
//=> 2

string-width-cli - CLI for this module
string-length - Get the real length of a string
widest-line - Get the visual width of the widest line in a string

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Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it

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