selective-whitespace

Condense all whitespace in a string, with options to preserve specific whitespace characters.

Install

$ npm install --save selective-whitespace

Usage

var selectiveWhitespace = require('selective-whitespace');

// Condense all whitespace (including \t\n\r)
selectiveWhitespace('  FOO      BAR    BAZ ');
//=> 'FOO BAR BAZ'

// Condense all whitespace (keep newlines)
selectiveWhitespace('FOO\n   BAR\n   BAZ\n ', {keep: '\n'});
//=> 'FOO\n BAR\n BAZ\n'

// Condense all whitespace (keep tabs)
selectiveWhitespace('\tFOO     \tBAR      \tBAZ', {keep: '\t'});
//=> '\tFOO \tBAR \tBAZ'

// Condense all whitespace (keep tabs and newlines)
selectiveWhitespace('\n\tFOO     \n\tBAR      \n\tBAZ', {keep: '\t,\n'});
//=> '\n\tFOO \n\tBAR \n\tBAZ'

// Strip all whitespace characters
selectiveWhitespace('\t\nFOO     \t\nBAR      \t\nBAZ', {stripAll:true});
//=> 'FOOBARBAZ'

API

selectiveWhitespace(str, [options]);

str

Required
Type: string

The string you want to condense.

options

Type: object

Set or override the default options.

keep

Type: string
options: \n\t\r

Comma or pipe-delimited list of values to preserve. You can preserve newlines \n, tabs \t or return characters \r.

stripAll

Type: Boolean
Default: false

stripAll mode will remove all whitespace characters from the string.

License

MIT © Michael Wuergler