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
*/

API

stripIndent(string)

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.

dedent(string)

Strip leading whitespace from each line in a string and remove surrounding blank lines.

Like stripIndent(), but also removes leading and trailing lines that contain only whitespace. Useful for template literals and multi-line strings where you want clean boundaries.

import {dedent} from 'strip-indent';

dedent(`
    unicorn
        cake
`);
/*
unicorn
    cake
*/

Related

• strip-indent-cli - CLI for this module
• indent-string - Indent each line in a string
• redent - Strip redundant indentation and indent the string