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string-length (4.0.2)

Published 2026-02-24 14:05:35 +00:00 by atheaadmin

Installation

Setup this registry in your project .npmrc file:

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To install the package using npm, run the following command:

npm install string-length@4.0.2

or add it to the package.json file:

"string-length": "4.0.2"

For more information on the npm registry, see the documentation.

About this package

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

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Dependencies

Dependencies

ID	Version
char-regex	^1.0.2
strip-ansi	^6.0.0

Development Dependencies

ID	Version
ava	^3.1.0
tsd	^0.11.0
xo	^0.25.3

Keywords

unicode string length size count astral symbol surrogates codepoints ansi escape codes

Details

npm

2026-02-24 14:05:35 +00:00

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Sindre Sorhus

Project Site

MIT

1.9 KiB

Assets (1)

string-length-4.0.2.tgz 1.9 KiB

Versions (2) View all

4.0.2 2026-02-24

5.0.1 2026-02-24