Segments

Baseline 2024

Newly available

Since April 2024, this feature works across the latest devices and browser versions. This feature might not work in older devices or browsers.

A Segments object is an iterable collection of the segments of a text string. It is returned by a call to the segment() method of an Intl.Segmenter object.

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Instance methods

Segments.prototype.containing()

Returns an object describing the segment in the original string that includes the code unit at a specified index.

Segments.prototype[Symbol.iterator]()

Returns an iterator to iterate over the segments.

Specifications

Specification
ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification
# sec-segments-objects

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