string-length

Get the real length of a string - by correctly counting astral symbols and ignoring ansi escape codes

String#length erroneously counts astral symbols as two characters.

Install

$ npm install string-length

Usage

const stringLength = require('string-length');

'🐴'.length;
//=> 2

stringLength('🐴');
//=> 1

stringLength('\u001B[1municorn\u001B[22m');
//=> 7

Related

• string-length-cli - CLI for this module
• string-width - Get visual width of a string