The 'longest' npm package is a simple utility that allows you to find the longest string in an array of strings. It is useful when you need to determine the maximum length of strings within a collection, which can be helpful for formatting console output, aligning text, or any other situation where string length matters.
Find the longest string in an array
This feature allows you to pass an array of strings to the 'longest' function, which returns the longest string in the array.
"const longest = require('longest');
const array = ['short', 'medium', 'longestString'];
const longestString = longest(array);
console.log(longestString); // 'longestString'"The 'string-length' package is similar to 'longest' in that it deals with string lengths. However, 'string-length' calculates and returns the real length of a string, taking into account ansi escape codes and combining characters, rather than finding the longest string in a collection.
The 'pad' package is related to 'longest' as it can be used in conjunction with finding the longest string to pad other strings to match the length of the longest string. It provides a way to pad a string on the left, right, or both sides to a certain length.
While 'cli-table' is more complex, it is a package that can benefit from 'longest' functionality. 'cli-table' is used to create table outputs in the console, and knowing the longest string in each column can help to format the table properly. However, 'cli-table' has its own internal methods for managing column widths.
Get the longest item in an array.
npm i longest --save
bower install longest --save
Install dev dependencies.
npm i -d && npm test
var longest = require('longest');
longest(['a', 'abcde', 'abc']);
//=> 'abcde'
longest(['a', 'abcde', 'abc']).length;
//=> 5
Install dev dependencies.
npm i -d && npm test
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue
Jon Schlinkert
Copyright (c) 2015 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the MIT license
This file was generated by verb-cli on March 31, 2015.
FAQs
Get the longest item in an array.
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