Invisible Characters Remover

🧼 A lightweight utility to clean up strings by removing a wide range of invisible and non-printable characters in JavaScript.

✨ Features

• Removes characters such as NULL, Backspace, Line Feed, No-Break Space, and many more (ASCII 0–31, \xA0).
• Helps clean up corrupted input, malformed text from external sources, or unintentional invisible characters.
• Pure function – no dependencies, easy to test and integrate.

📦 Installation

You can use this utility in two ways:

Option 1: Copy File Directly

Download removeInvisibleCharacters.js and import it into your project.

Option 2: Via NPM (if published)

npm install remove-invisible-characters

🚀 Usage

const { removeInvisibleCharacters } = require('remove-invisible-characters');

const original = "Hello\x00World\xA0!";
const cleaned = removeInvisibleCharacters(original);

console.log(cleaned); // "Hello World !"

🧪 What It Removes

It targets and replaces the following ASCII characters with a single space:

• Control characters: \x00 to \x1F
• Non-breaking space: \xA0

This ensures the resulting text is clean, visible, and safe for further processing or display.

📄 API

removeInvisibleCharacters(text: string): string

Parameters:

• text – A string that may contain invisible characters.

Returns:

• A new string with all targeted invisible characters replaced with spaces.

📜 License

MIT – Free to use, modify, and distribute.