strip-indent

strip-indent

Strip leading whitespace from each line in a string

The line with the least number of leading whitespace, ignoring empty lines, determines the number to remove.

Useful for removing redundant indentation.

Install

npm install strip-indent

Usage

import stripIndent from 'strip-indent';

const string = '\tunicorn\n\t\tcake';
/*
	unicorn
		cake
*/

stripIndent(string);
/*
unicorn
	cake
*/

API

stripIndent(string)

Strip leading whitespace from each line in a string.

The line with the least number of leading whitespace, ignoring empty lines, determines the number to remove.

dedent(string)

Strip leading whitespace from each line in a string and remove surrounding blank lines.

Like stripIndent(), but also removes leading and trailing lines that contain only whitespace. Useful for template literals and multi-line strings where you want clean boundaries.

import {dedent} from 'strip-indent';

dedent(`
	unicorn
		cake
`);
/*
unicorn
	cake
*/

Related

• strip-indent-cli - CLI for this module
• indent-string - Indent each line in a string
• redent - Strip redundant indentation and indent the string

Similar packages

Other packages similar to strip-indent

dedent

Dedent is similar to strip-indent but also trims the trailing newline. It is often used in template literals to avoid first-line indentation and to ensure that the output does not end with a newline, making it slightly different in its approach compared to strip-indent.

indent-string

While strip-indent removes indentation, indent-string adds indentation to each line in a string. This package can be considered the opposite of strip-indent. It allows specifying the number of spaces or the type of indentation (spaces or tabs), offering more flexibility depending on the user's needs.