printable-characters
A little helper for handling strings containing zero width control characters, ANSI styling, whitespaces, newlines, 💩, etc.
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string widthstring lengthreal string widthreal string lengthoptical string widthprinted widthunicodecodepointscode pointsstrlenzero widthzero width symbolszero width charactersvisible charactersvisible symbolsvisibleinvisibleinvisible symbolsinvisible charactersprintableprintable lengthprintable symbolsprintable charactersnon-printable charactersnonprintable characterscharacterssymbolsstring lengthreal string lengthstring trimmingtrimmingescapesescape codescodesansi escapestokenizingansiwhitespaces
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| Source | Rule | Reason | Accepted by | When |
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| semgrep | semgrep:dynamic-require | AI (semgrep): Dynamic require in test.js uses an env var set explicitly in package.json test scripts to point to the package's own build output. This is a stable, benign test harness pattern for this package. | ai |
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| 1.0.42 | 0 / 8 |
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