longest-streak

What is longest-streak?

The 'longest-streak' npm package is designed to calculate the longest streak of consecutive characters in a given string. It is useful for analyzing text patterns, such as finding the most repeated character in a row in a text.

What are longest-streak's main functionalities?

Calculate longest consecutive character streak

This feature allows you to determine the length of the longest sequence of a repeated character in a string. In the provided code sample, the function returns '10' because the character 'e' repeats consecutively ten times, which is the longest streak in the string.

const longestStreak = require('longest-streak');
console.log(longestStreak('aaaabbaaccdeeeeeeeeee')); // Output: 10

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longest-streak

Count the longest repeating streak of a character.

Install

This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be imported instead of required.

npm:

npm install longest-streak

Use

import {longestStreak} from 'longest-streak'

longestStreak('` foo `` bar `', '`') // => 2

API

This package exports the following identifiers: longestStreak. There is no default export.

longestStreak(value, character)

Get the count of the longest repeating streak of character in value.

Parameters

• value (string) — Content, coerced to string.
• character (string) — Single character to look for.

Returns

number — Count of most frequent adjacent characters in value

Throws

• Error — when character is not a single character string.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer