Package: string

String handling APIs.

Methods #

coalesce #

function coalesce(value1 as string, value2 as string) as string

Returns the first non-null value. value2 cannot be null.

Since 1.5.1

contains #

function contains(target as string, search as string) as bool

Returns true if the target string contains the specified search string.

endsWith #

function endsWith(target as string, search as string) as bool

Returns true if the target string ends with the specified search string.

fromDateTime #

function fromDateTime(value as datetime) as string

Converts a datetime value to a string.

fromDecimal #

function fromDecimal(value as decimal) as string

Converts a decimal value to a string.

indexOf #

function indexOf(target as string, search as string) as int

Returns the index of the first occurrence of the search string in the target string. If not found, returns -1.

isBlank #

function isBlank(value as string) as bool

Returns true if the value is null or contains only whitespaces.

Since 1.7.0

isDateTime #

function isDateTime(value as string) as bool

Returns true if the given string is a valid datetime representation.

isDecimal #

function isDecimal(value as string) as bool

Returns true if the given string is a valid decimal representation.

isInt #

function isInt(value as string) as bool

Returns true if the given string is a valid integer representation.

length #

function length(target as string) as int

Returns the length of the string.

replace #

function replace(target as string, from as string, to as string) as string

Replaces all occurrences of from with to in the target string.

split #

function split(target as string, splitter as string) as list of string

Splits the target string into a list of substrings using the specified splitter string.

startsWith #

function startsWith(target as string, search as string) as bool

Returns true if the target string starts with the specified search string.

substring #

function substring(target as string, start as int, end as int) as string

Returns the substring of the target string from the specified start index to end-1.

toLower #

function toLower(target as string) as string

Converts the target string to lowercase.

toSentenceCase #

function toSentenceCase(target as string) as string

Converts the first character of the target string to uppercase and the rest to lowercase.

toTitleCase #

function toTitleCase(target as string) as string

Converts the first character of each word in the target string to uppercase.

toUpper #

function toUpper(target as string) as string

Converts the target string to uppercase.

trim #

function trim(target as string) as string

The trim method removes whitespace from both ends of a the target.