chunk for Text

[harrysolovay]

I believe we should add a chunk util within text to complement the chunk util in collections. The signature would look as follows.

function chunk(text: string, size: number): string[]

Let me know if this is desirable & I'll submit a PR :)

[0f-0b]

What would chunk("𝐯̂", 1) return?

[harrysolovay]

I would imagine ["𝐯̂"], unless, does 𝐯̂` for some reason count as multiple chars? If there's some unicode reason... this could cause issues. Maybe there'd be a third parameter enabling the user to specify how to treat cases where the cutoff is in the middle of a character.

[timreichen]

What is the use case? Why not just split the string into an array and use collections/chunk?

[harrysolovay]

That's reasonable. Especially given the aforementioned edge case.

[BlackAsLight]

I would imagine ["𝐯̂"], unless, does 𝐯̂` for some reason count as multiple chars? If there's some unicode reason... this could cause issues.

JavaScript uses UTF-16 for its strings and this character has a length of 2. Iterating through it via its length would cause you to split the character in half with most likely gibberish on both sides until it's placed together again.