min-indent

Get the shortest leading whitespace from lines in a string

The line with the least number of leading whitespace, ignoring empty lines, determines the number.

Useful for removing redundant indentation.

Install

$ npm install --save min-indent

Usage

const minIndent = require('min-indent');

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

minIndent(str); // 1

Related

• strip-indent - Strip leading whitespace from each line in a string
• strip-indent-cli - CLI for this module
• indent-string - Indent each line in a string

License

MIT © James Kyle

Current Tags

• 1.0.1                                ...           latest (5 years ago)

2 Versions

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