Remove leading space characters to let you nicely indent your multiline strings in your code.

• Node v4+

By default, multiline detects indentation by looking at the first non-empty line. Notice that the first empty line is dropped from the output to let you to start the first line with the indentation level you like.

const multiline = require('multiline-string')() const s = multiline(`  1. xxx  a. yyy  2. zzz  `) console.log(s) // => "1. xxx\n a. yyy\n2. zzz"

If you want to start your string with an empty line, you can do:

const s = multiline(`   Line 1  Line 2  `) // => "\nLine 1\nLine 2\n"

You can also give marginMark to identify the start of each line to include indentation in the resulting text.

const multiline = require('multiline-string')({ marginMark: '|' }) const s = multiline(`  | Usage: my-command file  |  | -v, --version Show version  | -h, --help Show help information  |`) console.log(s) // => " Usage: ...\n\n -v, --version ..."