codePoints

Creates a code points validation action.

const Action = v.codePoints<TInput, TRequirement, TMessage>(
  requirement,
  message
);

Generics

• TInput extends string
• TRequirement extends number
• TMessage extends ErrorMessage<CodePointsIssue<TInput, TRequirement>> | undefined

Parameters

• requirement TRequirement
• message TMessage

Explanation

With codePoints you can validate the number of Unicode code points in a string. Code points are not the same as UTF-16 code units or user-perceived characters (graphemes): 😀 consists of 2 UTF-16 code units, 1 code point, and 1 grapheme, while 👨🏽‍👩🏽 consists of 5 code points but 1 grapheme. If the number of code points does not match the requirement, you can use message to customize the error message.

Returns

• Action CodePointsAction<TInput, TRequirement, TMessage>

Examples

The following examples show how codePoints can be used.

Code points schema

Schema to validate a string with 8 code points.

const CodePointsSchema = v.pipe(
  v.string(),
  v.codePoints(8, 'Exactly 8 code points are required.')
);

Related

The following APIs can be combined with codePoints.

Schemas

• any,
• custom,
• string

Methods

• pipe

Actions

• graphemes,
• length

Utils

• isOfKind,
• isOfType