@thi.ng/strings

This project is part of the @thi.ng/umbrella monorepo.

• About
  • General
  • Numeric formatters
  • Casing
  • Slugify
  • ANSI
  • Word wrapping
  • Padding / wrapping
  • Indentation
  • Char range presets / lookup tables
  • Units
  • Miscellaneous
  • Status
• Installation
• Dependencies
• Usage examples
• API
  • Basic usage examples
• Authors
• License

About

Various (80+) string formatting, word wrapping & utility functions, some higher-order, some memoized.

Partially based on Clojure version of thi.ng/strf.

General

• defFormat / format
• interpolate / interpolateKeys
• escape / unescape
• join / splice / split
• repeat
• stringify

Numeric formatters

• radix
• int / intLocale
• float / floatFixedWidth
• maybeParseFloat / maybeParseInt
• percent
• uuid
• vector
• B8 / B16 / B32 - fixed size binary formatters
• U8 / U16 / U24 / U32 / U64 - fixed size hex formatters
• Z2 / Z3 / Z4 - fixed sized zero padded number formatters

Casing

• lower / upper / capitalize
• camel / kebab / snake / upperSnake

Slugify

• slugify / slugifyGH

ANSI

• isAnsi / isAnsiEnd / isAnsiStart
• stripAnsi
• lengthAnsi

Word wrapping

• wordWrap / wordWrapLine / wordWrapLines
• SPLIT_PLAIN / SPLIT_ANSI

Padding / wrapping

• center
• padLeft / padRight
• truncate / truncateLeft / truncateRight
• trim
• wrap

Indentation

• spacesToTabs / spacesToTabsLine
• tabsToSpaces / tabsToSpacesLine

Char range presets / lookup tables

• charRange
• ALPHA / ALPHA_NUM / DIGITS / LOWER / UPPER / HEX
• BOM / ESCAPES / ESCAPES_REV
• WS / PUNCTUATION

Units

• units
• bits / bytes
• grams
• meters
• seconds
• ruler / grid

Miscellaneous

• hstr - Hollerith strings
• computeCursorPos

Status

STABLE - used in production

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Installation

yarn add @thi.ng/strings

// ES module
<script type="module" src="https://unpkg.com/@thi.ng/strings?module" crossorigin></script>

// UMD
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@thi.ng/strings/lib/index.umd.js" crossorigin></script>

Package sizes (gzipped, pre-treeshake): ESM: 4.08 KB / CJS: 4.38 KB / UMD: 4.15 KB

Dependencies

• @thi.ng/api
• @thi.ng/errors
• @thi.ng/hex
• @thi.ng/memoize

Usage examples

Several demos in this repo's /examples directory are using this package.

A selection:

Screenshot	Description	Live demo	Source
	Basic crypto-currency candle chart with multiple moving averages plots	Demo	Source
	Basic SPA example with atom-based UI router	Demo	Source
	rstream based spreadsheet w/ S-expression formula DSL	Demo	Source
	XML/HTML/SVG to hiccup/JS conversion	Demo	Source

API

Generated API docs

Basic usage examples

// create a custom string formatter
const fmt = defFormat([
    "Price: ",
    { usd: "$", gbp: "£", eur: "€" },
    float(2),
    " (",
    percent(2),
    " off)"
]);

// use format
fmt("usd", 1.2345, 0.5);
// Price: $1.23 (50.00% off)

fmt("eur", 1.2345, 0.25)
// Price: €1.23 (25.00% off)

Authors

Karsten Schmidt

If this project contributes to an academic publication, please cite it as:

@misc{thing-strings,
  title = "@thi.ng/strings",
  author = "Karsten Schmidt",
  note = "https://thi.ng/strings",
  year = 2015
}

License

© 2015 - 2021 Karsten Schmidt // Apache Software License 2.0