feihe-houzz / strip-indent

Strip leading whitespace from each line in a string

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 --save strip-indent

Usage

const stripIndent = require('strip-indent');

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

stripIndent(str);
/*
unicorn
	cake
*/

Related

• strip-indent-cli - CLI for this module
• indent-string - Indent each line in a string

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus