string-width

string-width

Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it

Some Unicode characters are fullwidth and use double the normal width. ANSI escape codes are stripped and doesn't affect the width.

Useful to be able to measure the actual width of command-line output.

Install

$ npm install --save string-width

Usage

const stringWidth = require('string-width');

stringWidth('古');
//=> 2

stringWidth('\u001b[1m古\u001b[22m');
//=> 2

stringWidth('a');
//=> 1

Related

• string-width-cli - CLI for this module
• string-length - Get the real length of a string
• widest-line - Get the visual width of the widest line in a string

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus

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wcwidth

The wcwidth package is similar to string-width in that it provides functionality to determine the number of terminal column cells a wide-character string will occupy. It is based on the wcwidth() function defined in POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008 which is used in Unix-based systems.

eastasianwidth

This package is designed to provide the functionality to determine the East Asian Width property as defined by Unicode. It can be used to figure out if a character is full-width, half-width, wide, narrow, ambiguous, or neutral. This is similar to string-width but focuses specifically on East Asian characters.

string-pixel-width

While string-width calculates the number of columns a string will take up in a monospaced font, string-pixel-width calculates the width of a string in pixels. This is useful for determining the actual rendered width of a string in a web page or an application with proportional fonts.