In Scala, how to get the ANSI display length of a String?

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This is an minimalistic example:

  it("actual length") {

    import scala.io.AnsiColor
    val str = AnsiColor.RED + "c" + AnsiColor.RESET

    assert(str.length == 1)
  }

But when this test is executed, it shows that the length of the str is 10, while the display length of it should be 1 (all ANSI escape characters should have 0 length)

How to correct it?

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1 Answers

The length method's doc says this actually counts the number of Unicode code units:

In the Java SE API documentation, Unicode code point is used for character values in the range between U+0000 and U+10FFFF, and Unicode code unit is used for 16-bit char values that are code units of the UTF-16 encoding.

   /**
     * Returns the length of this string.
     * The length is equal to the number of Unicode code units in the string.
     *
     * Returns the length of the sequence of characters represented by this object.
     */
    public int length() {
        return value.length >> coder();
    }

There is no built-in solution to count what you want, but you can simply remove them with a regex. AnsiColor escape codes seems to have a precise pattern: \u001b + [ + 1-2 digits + m

  val str: String = AnsiColor.RED + "c" + AnsiColor.RESET
  println(str.replaceAll("\\u001B\\[\\d{1,2}m", "").length) // 1
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