string-width-cli

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

Usage no npm install needed!

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README

string-width-cli

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.

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

Install

$ npm install --global string-width-cli

Usage

$ string-width --help

  Usage
    $ string-width <text>

  Example
    $ string-width a古
    3

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