From 316238f9ea69d646a10d52e012410ebf06def398 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: utox39 <francescomoccaldi39@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:25:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat(utils): add a utility function to get the length of the
 longest ascii art row

---
 src/utils.zig | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/utils.zig b/src/utils.zig
index f368d9e..53b45b3 100644
--- a/src/utils.zig
+++ b/src/utils.zig
@@ -98,3 +98,19 @@ test "countCodepoints" {
 
     try std.testing.expectEqual(28, try countCodepoints(str));
 }
+
+pub fn getLongestAsciiArtRowLen(ascii_art: []const []const u8) !usize {
+    var longest_len: usize = 0;
+
+    for (ascii_art) |ascii_row| {
+        longest_len = @max(longest_len, try countCodepoints(ascii_row));
+    }
+
+    return longest_len;
+}
+
+test "getLongestAsciiArtRowLen" {
+    const rows = [_][]const u8{ "            ████████████████", "██░░░░██████████░░    ░░██████████░░░░██" };
+
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(40, try getLongestAsciiArtRowLen(rows[0..]));
+}