remove-trailing-spaces
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Package description
The remove-trailing-spaces npm package is designed to help developers clean up their code by removing unnecessary trailing spaces from the end of each line in a given text or file. This can be particularly useful for maintaining coding standards, improving readability, and avoiding potential issues in languages or environments where trailing spaces might cause errors or unexpected behavior.
Remove trailing spaces from a string
This feature allows you to remove trailing spaces from a given string. It's useful for cleaning up individual lines of text or strings that may have been formatted with extra spaces at the end.
"use strict";\nconst removeTrailingSpaces = require('remove-trailing-spaces');\nlet stringWithTrailingSpaces = 'Hello World! ';\nlet cleanedString = removeTrailingSpaces(stringWithTrailingSpaces);\nconsole.log(cleanedString); // 'Hello World!'Integrate with file processing
This feature demonstrates how remove-trailing-spaces can be used in conjunction with Node.js's file system module (fs) to read a file, clean it by removing trailing spaces, and then write the cleaned data to a new file. It's particularly useful for batch processing of files or cleaning up source code files.
"use strict";\nconst fs = require('fs');\nconst removeTrailingSpaces = require('remove-trailing-spaces');\nfs.readFile('example.txt', 'utf8', (err, data) => {\n if (err) throw err;\n const cleanedData = removeTrailingSpaces(data);\n fs.writeFile('example_cleaned.txt', cleanedData, (err) => {\n if (err) throw err;\n console.log('File has been cleaned!');\n });\n});The trim package offers functionality to remove whitespace from both ends of a string, which is slightly different from remove-trailing-spaces as it also trims leading spaces. It's useful for general string cleanup but doesn't specifically target only trailing spaces.
Strip-eof is designed to remove end-of-file (EOF) markers from a string or buffer. While it focuses on a different aspect of cleanup, it shares the goal of tidying up text content. Unlike remove-trailing-spaces, it doesn't specifically target trailing spaces on each line.
Readme
Remove the trailing spaces from a string.
$ npm i --save remove-trailing-spaces
const removeTrailingSpaces = require("remove-trailing-spaces");
let input = "Line 1 "
+ "\n" + "Line 2 "
+ "\n" + "Line 3 \t\t\t"
+ "\n" + "Line 4 " + String.fromCharCode(160)
+ "\n" + " "
+ "\n" + "Line 6"
;
let res = removeTrailingSpaces(input);
let oLines = input.split("\n");
res.split("\n").forEach((c, i) => {
console.log(`Removed ${oLines[i].length - c.length} spaces on line ${i + 1}`);
// Removed 5 spaces on line 1
// Removed 8 spaces on line 2
// Removed 8 spaces on line 3
// Removed 11 spaces on line 4
// Removed 19 spaces on line 5
// Removed 0 spaces on line 6
});
removeTrailingSpaces(input)Remove the trailing spaces from a string.
input: The input string.String The output string.
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FAQs
Remove the trailing spaces from a string.
We found that remove-trailing-spaces demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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