slice-ansi

Slice a string with ANSI escape codes

Install

npm install slice-ansi

Usage

import chalk from 'chalk';
import sliceAnsi from 'slice-ansi';

const string = 'The quick brown ' + chalk.red('fox jumped over ') +
	'the lazy ' + chalk.green('dog and then ran away with the unicorn.');

console.log(sliceAnsi(string, 20, 30));

API

sliceAnsi(string, startSlice, endSlice?)

string

Type: string

String with ANSI escape codes. Like one styled by chalk.

startSlice

Type: number

Zero-based visible-column index at which to start the slice. Grapheme clusters (for example, emoji sequences and combining marks) are kept intact.

endSlice

Type: number

Zero-based visible-column index at which to end the slice.

Related

• wrap-ansi - Wordwrap a string with ANSI escape codes
• cli-truncate - Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal
• chalk - Terminal string styling done right

Maintainers

• Sindre Sorhus
• Josh Junon