Function: replaceEvilWhitespaceChars()

Source: EvilWhitespace.ts

"Evil" whitespace characters are Unicode code points that visually appear as spaces or are completely invisible, but are distinct from normal whitespace. The matched ranges are: U+0000–U+0008, U+000B–U+000C, U+000E–U+001F, U+0080–U+00A0, and U+2000–U+200F.

Import

import { replaceEvilWhitespaceChars } from '@litert/utils-string';

Signature

function replaceEvilWhitespaceChars(str: string, to?: string): string;

Description

Replaces all evil whitespace characters in str with the string to. Defaults to removing them (replacing with an empty string).

Parameters

• Parameter str: string — The string to process.
• Parameter to?: string (default: '') — The replacement string.

Return Value

A new string with all evil whitespace characters replaced.

Example

import { replaceEvilWhitespaceChars } from '@litert/utils-string';

replaceEvilWhitespaceChars('hel\u200Blo');         // 'hello'
replaceEvilWhitespaceChars('hel\u200Blo', ' ');    // 'hel lo'
replaceEvilWhitespaceChars('a\u0001b\u0002c');     // 'abc'