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= Text API =

This API provides some more general operations on strings and data serialization into and back from strings.

* `text.detab(value: string, tabWidth: number): string`

<pre>Converts tabs in a string to spaces, while aligning the tags at the specified tab width. This is used for formatting text in `term.write`, for example.
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* `text.padRight(value: string, length: number): string`

<pre>Pads a string with whitespace on the right up to the specified length.
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* `text.padLeft(value: string, length: number): string`

<pre>Pads a string with whitespace on the left up to the specified length.
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* `text.trim(value: string): string`

<pre>Removes whitespace characters from the start and end of a string.
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* `text.wrap(value:string, width:number, maxWidth:number)`

<pre>Wraps the provided string to specified width.
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* `text.wrappedLines(value:string, width:number, maxWidth:number)`

<pre>Returns a wrapper function around `text.wrap`.
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* `text.tokenize(value:string)`

<pre>Splits the input string into a table, using space as the delimiter.
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