ansi-aware-terminal-text-utils

To calculate the visual width of a string with ANSI escape codes, use a utility function like `visualWidth` that strips hidden control sequences and counts wide characters, ensuring accurate terminal table column alignment.

Table columns become misaligned when CJK ideographs and emoji are counted as single columns. Using an ANSI-aware text utility resolves this by correctly counting wide characters as two visual columns for accurate layout.

The best way to truncate and pad text with terminal color codes is using dedicated functions like `truncate` and `pad` that recognize ANSI escape sequences, ensuring visual spacing remains consistent in CLI applications.

Yes, you can format terminal UI tables with ANSI-aware text utilities without adding external dependencies. These functions operate standalone, requiring no external libraries to handle string measurement, padding, or ANSI code stripping.

To strip ANSI escape codes from a string before measuring its length in a CLI application, use the `stripAnsi` function. This removes terminal control sequences, allowing accurate string measurement and truncation for text formatting.