Segments

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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.

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.