# longest-streak [![Build Status][travis-badge]][travis] [![Coverage Status][codecov-badge]][codecov]

Count the longest repeating streak of a character.

## Installation

[npm][]:

```bash
npm install longest-streak
```

## Usage

```js
var longestStreak = require('longest-streak');

longestStreak('` foo `` bar `', '`') //=> 2
```

## API

### `longestStreak(value, character)`

Get the count of the longest repeating streak of `character` in `value`.

###### Parameters

*   `value` (`string`) — Content, coerced to string.
*   `character` (`string`) — Single character to look for.

###### Returns

`number` — Number of characters at the place where `character` occurs in
its longest streak in `value`.

###### Throws

*   `Error` — when `character` is not a single character string.

## License

[MIT][license] © [Titus Wormer][author]

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