whack

text formatter stream

whack allows you to cap text to a specific width, similar to fmt -w <len>.

Installation

npm install whack

Usage

whack(options)

Create a Transform stream, where options is an object that can contain:

• limit - limit to split text. Defaults to 80.
• separator - A string to insert when separating text. Defaults to \n.
• splitOnWord - Only split after full words. Defaults to true.
• stripNewline - Remove both \n and \r characters from the chunk before processing. Defaults to false.

var whack = require("whack");
var fs = require("fs");

fs.createReadStream("README.md")
  .pipe(whack({ limit: 80 }))    // limits line size to 80 chars
  .pipe(process.stdout);