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About
Various (~100) string formatting, word wrapping & utility functions, some higher-order, some memoized.
Partially based on Clojure version of thi.ng/strf.
General
defFormat/formatinterpolate/interpolateKeysescape/unescapejoin/splice/splitrepeatstringify
Numeric formatters
currency/chf/eur/gpb/usd/yenradixint/intLocalefloat/floatFixedWidthmaybeParseFloat/maybeParseIntpercentuuidvectorB8/B16/B32- fixed size binary formattersU8/U16/U24/U32/U64- fixed size hex formattersZ2/Z3/Z4- fixed sized zero padded number formatters
Casing
lower/upper/capitalizecamel/kebab/snake/upperSnake
Slugify
slugify/slugifyGH
ANSI
isAnsi/isAnsiEnd/isAnsiStartstripAnsilengthAnsi
Word wrapping
wordWrap/wordWrapLine/wordWrapLinesSPLIT_PLAIN/SPLIT_ANSI
Padding / wrapping
centerpadLeft/padRighttruncate/truncateLeft/truncateRighttrimwrap
Indentation
spacesToTabs/spacesToTabsLinetabsToSpaces/tabsToSpacesLine
Char range presets / lookup tables
charRangeALPHA/ALPHA_NUM/DIGITS/LOWER/UPPER/HEXBOM/ESCAPES/ESCAPES_REVWS/PUNCTUATION
Units
unitsbits/bytesgramsmeterssecondsruler/grid
Miscellaneous
hstr- Hollerith stringscomputeCursorPos
Status
STABLE - used in production
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Installation
yarn add @thi.ng/strings
ESM import:
import * as str from "@thi.ng/strings";
Browser ESM import:
<script type="module" src="https://esm.run/@thi.ng/strings"></script>
For Node.js REPL:
const str = await import("@thi.ng/strings");
Package sizes (brotli'd, pre-treeshake): ESM: 5.54 KB
Dependencies
Note: @thi.ng/api is in most cases a type-only import (not used at runtime)
Usage examples
Eight projects in this repo's /examples directory are using this package:
| Screenshot | Description | Live demo | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
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ASCII art raymarching with thi.ng/shader-ast & thi.ng/text-canvas | Demo | Source |
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Large ASCII font text generator using @thi.ng/rdom | Demo | Source |
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Basic crypto-currency candle chart with multiple moving averages plots | Demo | Source |
| Basic SPA example with atom-based UI router | Demo | Source | |
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Mastodon API feed reader with support for different media types, fullscreen media modal, HTML rewriting | Demo | Source |
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Generative audio synth offline renderer and WAV file export | Demo | Source |
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rstream based spreadsheet w/ S-expression formula DSL | Demo | Source |
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XML/HTML/SVG to hiccup/JS conversion | Demo | Source |
API
Basic usage examples
import { defFormat, float, percent } from "@thi.ng/strings";
// create a custom string formatter
const fmt = defFormat([
"Price: ",
{ usd: "$", gbp: "£", eur: "€" },
float(2),
" (",
percent(2),
" off)"
]);
// use format
fmt("usd", 1.2345, 0.5);
// Price: $1.23 (50.00% off)
fmt("eur", 1.2345, 0.25)
// Price: €1.23 (25.00% off)
Authors
If this project contributes to an academic publication, please cite it as:
@misc{thing-strings,
title = "@thi.ng/strings",
author = "Karsten Schmidt",
note = "https://thi.ng/strings",
year = 2015
}
License
© 2015 - 2025 Karsten Schmidt // Apache License 2.0






