kageiit / detect-indent-rs

detect-indent-rs

rust port of sindresorhus/detect-indent All attribution goes to that project.

Detect the indentation of code

Pass in a string of any kind of text and get the indentation.

Use cases

• Persisting the indentation when modifying a file.
• Have new content match the existing indentation.
• Setting the right indentation in your editor.

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
detect-indent = "0.1"

and this to your crate root

extern crate detect_indent;
use detect_indent::detect_indent;

fn main() {
  println!("{:?}", detect_indent(""));
}

Algorithm

The current algorithm looks for the most common difference between two consecutive non-empty lines. More Details