Fix Excel Sheet Name

This package fixes MS-Excel sheet name by limiting it to 31 characters, empty sheet name, and removing illegal characters such as :\/?*[] and more.

Installation (via npm)

$ npm install --save fix-excel-sheet-name

Usage

The package supports ES5 or later. The example below is using ES6 features.

const fixExcelSheetName = require('fix-excel-sheet-name')
 
const sheetName = 'Is it too long?? Excel/MS Excel sheets have some strange name limitations...'
fixExcelSheetName(sheetName, {
  empty: 'missing sheet name',
  omission: ' - END',
  replacement: '_'
}) // 'Is it too long__ Excel_MS - END'

• sheetName (required) - the excel sheet name you want to fix.
• empty (optional) - sheet name in case given name is missing (empty string). Default empty sheet name: "<empty>"
• omission (optional) - MS Excel sheet names are limited to 31 characters. The last characters of the truncated sheet name are replaced with the omission string which defaults to “…”.
• replacement (optional) - MS Excel sheet names cannot include some characters such as !*: and more. The given parameter will be used to replace those illegal characters.

License

MIT

Author

Oron Nadiv ([e-mail])