Usage

All the above slots that requires two arguments, will use the first argument as its "what" argument, and the second as its "with" argument. Avoiding naming these though, allows you to reference other slots, and use these as sources to parametrize your invocations to the above slots.

[strings.replace]

This slot replaces occurrencies of a string inside a string, with some other string. The simplest version is like follows.

You can also reference slots and dynamic slots for that matter, assuming your slots somehow returns strings, or something that can be converted into a string, such as the following illustrates. Notice, this code will throw an exception, since there are probably no slots called "some-slot-returning-string" in your installation.

Above the first argument is "what to look for", and the second argument is "what to substitute it with".

The above is a general pattern for most of these slots, where the node arguments supplied to the slot will be evaluated as a lambda object, before the arguments are consumed, allowing you to use arguments that are the result of invoking other slots as arguments to your original outer most slot.

[strings.replace-not-of]

This slot will replace every single character in your original string, that cannot be found in its first argument, with the value of its second argument. This slot is useful if you want to remove all characters that cannot be found in another character set, such as the following illustrates.

The above will result in the following result

[strings.capitalize]

Turns the first character of your string into a CAPS character.

[strings.concat]

Concatenates a list of strings into one string. Similar to [strings.join], except it doesn't take a separating character.

[strings.contains]

Returns true if the specified string contains some sequence of characters.

[strings.ends-with]

Returns true if the specified string ends with some sequence of characters.

[strings.starts-with]

Returns true if the specified string starts with some sequence of characters.

[strings.join]

Similar to [strings.concat], except it also takes an optional separating character, allowing you to concatenate a bunch of strings, and making sure each original string is separated by some sequence of strings.

[strings.length]

Returns the length of a string as an integer number.

[strings.regex-replace]

Replaces matches of the given regular expression with some static sequence of characters.

The first argument is what regular expression to match, the second argument is what to replace all matches with.

[strings.split]

Splits a string into multiple strings, where a sequence of characters can be found, removing the original sequence of characters from the resulting node set.

The above will result in the following result.

[strings.to-lower]

Turns every single character in your input string into a lowercase character.

[strings.to-upper]

Turns every single character in your input string into a UPPER case character.

[strings.trim], [strings.trim-start], [strings.trim-end]

Trims a string, either both sides, only the start of it, or only the end of it, for occurrencies of characters found in the sequence of characters provided as its argument.

[strings.url-encode]

URL encodes a string. Example can be found below.

Resulting in the following after execution.

[strings.url-decode]

URL decodes a string, the opposite of [strings.url-encode]. Example can be found below.

Resulting in the following after execution.

[strings.substring]

Returns a substring of the specified string.

The above will result in the following.

Notice, the second argument is the number of characters to return and not the offset into the string of where to stop returning. In such a regard, it works the same way as the C# Substring method.

[strings.matches]

Returns all regular expression matches from specified source string.

The above will result in the following.

Notice, the second argument is the number of characters to return and not the offset into the string of where to stop returning. In such a regard, it works the same way as the C# Substring method.

Project website

The source code for this repository can be found at github.com/polterguy/magic.lambda.strings, and you can provide feedback, provide bug reports, etc at the same place.

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License

This project is the copyright(c) 2020-2021 of Aista, Ltd thomas@servergardens.com, and is licensed under the terms of the LGPL version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the enclosed LICENSE file for details.

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