strip-indent

Strip leading whitespace from every 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 --save strip-indent

Usage

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

stripIndent('\tunicorn\n\t\tcake');
/*
unicorn
    cake
*/

CLI

$ npm install --global strip-indent

$ strip-indent --help

  Usage
    strip-indent <file>
    echo <string> | strip-indent

  Example
    echo '\tunicorn\n\t\tcake' | strip-indent
    unicorn
        cake

Related

• indent-string - Indent each line in a string

License

MIT Sindre Sorhus