strip-indent

Strip leading whitespace from each line in a string

Usage no npm install needed!

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

README

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
*/

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