min-indent

Get the shortest leading whitespace from lines in a string

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import minIndent from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/min-indent';
</script>

README

min-indent

Get the shortest leading whitespace from lines in a string

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

Useful for removing redundant indentation.

Install

$ npm install --save min-indent

Usage

const minIndent = require('min-indent');

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

minIndent(str); // 1

Related

strip-indent - Strip leading whitespace from each line in a string
strip-indent-cli - CLI for this module
indent-string - Indent each line in a string

License

MIT © James Kyle