dedent 0.0.1

Remove any common leading whitespace from every line in text.

dedent

Dedent - Remove any common leading whitespace from every line in text. Ported from Python.

Install

flutter pub get dedent

or add to your pubspec.yaml

dependencies:
  dedent: ^1.0.0

Usage

import 'package:dedent/dedent.dart';

FittedBox(
  child: Text(dedent('''
    Not really possible to access another widget, or rather, another
    widget's state in order to change it. You really need to create
    a model and have the model change cause the change - see my 
    'learn2' project.
  ''')),
)

more specifically

    var text = '''
        def foo():
            while 1:
                return foo
        ''';
    var _expect = '''
def foo():
    while 1:
        return foo
''';
    expect(_expect, equals(dedent(text)));

Tests

flutter test

Tests are also ported from Python.

If you have checked out dedent locally and prefer to refer to the local project then your dependencies will be something like:

dependencies:
  dedent:
    path: ../dedent

Source Code

Source code and tests at https://github.com/abulka/flutter-dedent

Background

Translation of Python textwrap.dedent algorithm https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/eb97b9211e7c99841d6cae8c63893b3525d5a401/Lib/textwrap.py