clean-whitespace

normalize whitepsace characters to \t \n and space

usage

var cleanWhitespace = require('clean-whitespace')

var clean = cleanWhitespace(gnarlyStringsUsersCopyAndPastedFromWord)

var options = {tab: '  '}
var spaces = cleanWhitespace('\t\t', options)
  // => '    '

Cleans and normalizes whitespace, handling line breaks, characters, whitespace, and invisible characters.

Options

The second parameter is an options object with any of the following:

• tab : string, default '\t' - replacement for tab characters
• tabSpace : number - if specified, matches tabSpace repeated spaces as a tab character, eg:

```js
cleanWhitespace('  hi', {tabSpace: 2}) // => '\thi'
```

• space : string, default ' ' - replacement for space characters
• line : string, default '\n' - replacement for linebreak characters
• invisible : string, default '' - replacement for invisible characters

api

cleanWhitespace(String, options? : Object) => String

Cleans extended whitespace characters from strings.

installation

$ npm install clean-whitespace

running the tests

From package root:

$ npm install
$ npm test

contributors

• jden

license

MIT. (c) MMXIII AgileMD http://agilemd.com