dedent

Strips the common leading whitespace from every line of a multi-line string, and trims a single leading/trailing blank line if present.

Lets you write readable, indented multi-line strings in source code (typically template literals) without that indentation leaking into the output.

Available since v3.0.0

Import

import { dedent } from '@helpers4/string';
// or, from the all-in-one package (same code, one install):
import { dedent } from 'helpers4/string';

dedent(str: string): string

Parameter	Type	Description
`str`	`string`	The string to dedent

string — The dedented string

Strips the common leading whitespace and the wrapping blank lines.

dedent(`
  Hello
    World
`)
// => 'Hello\n  World'

Lines with more indentation than the minimum keep their relative indent.

dedent('    a\n  b\n      c')
// => '  a\nb\n    c'