longest

What is longest?

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.

What are longest's main functionalities?

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'"

Other packages similar to longest

string-length

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.

pad

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.

cli-table

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.

README

longest

Get the length of the longest item in an array.

Install with npm

npm i longest --save

Install with bower

bower install longest --save

Usage

var longest = require('longest');
var arr = ['a', 'bb', 'ccc'];
console.log(longest(arr));
//=> ccc

console.log(longest(arr).length);
//=> 3

Author

Jon Schlinkert

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License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jon Schlinkert, contributors. Released under the MIT license