putil-flattentext

Simple utility that manipulates \t \b \r characters and converts it to space characters, or ignores them and results single line text. Very useful for pretty printing support.

Installation

• npm install putil-flattentext --save

Usage

flattentext(str, options)

const flattenText = require('./');
let text =
    'aaa\n'+
    '\tbbb\n'+
    '\t\tccc\n'+
    '\bddd\r'+
    'eee';
console.log(flattenText(text, {
  indent: 2, // default
  noWrap: false, // default
}));

Result output

aaa
  bbb
      ccc
    ddd
eee

const flattenText = require('./');
let text =
    'select \n\t(\n\t'+
    'name,\n'+
    'address\n'+
    '\b) from x \r'+
    'where ...';
console.log(flattenText(text, {
  noWrap: true, // default
}));

Result output

select (name, address) from x where ...

Node Compatibility

• node >= 6.x;

License

MIT