String (gb.util)

This class provides string utility functions.

Static methods

Distance	Return the Damerau-Levenshtein distance between two strings.
FromHTML	Since 3.11 Return the text contents of an HTML string, by removing all markups and entities.
IsEmail	Return if a string can be interpreted as an e-mail.
IsIP	Return if a string can be interpreted as a IPv4 address.
IsIPv6	Return if a string can be interpreted as a IPv6 address.
PadLeft	Since 3.15 Returns a new string that right-aligns the characters in the original string by padding them on the left with a specified string pattern, for a specified total length.
PadRight	Since 3.15 Returns a new string that left-aligns the characters in the original string by padding them on the right with a specified string pattern, for a specified total length.
RemoveDiacritics	Return a copy of a string with all diacritics removed.
ToPhonetic	Return a phonetic representation of a string.

Byte	This is a synonymous of the Pos method.
Chr	Returns a character from its Unicode value. It is UTF-8 encoded.
Code	Returns the Unicode value of a character inside an UTF-8 string.
Comp	Compares two UTF-8 strings, and returns:
InStr	Returns the position of the first occurrence of Pattern in String.
Index	Returns the index of the character at position Pos in the string.
IsValid	Return TRUE if String is a valid UTF-8 string.
LCase	Returns an UTF-8 string converted to lower case.
Left	Returns the Length first characters of an UTF-8 string.
Len	Returns the length of an UTF-8 string in characters.
Lower	This is a synonymous for the String.LCase method.
Mid	Returns a substring containing the Length characters from the position Start.
NInStr	Since 3.21 Returns the number of occurrences of Pattern in String.
Pos	Returns the position of the character of index Index in the string.
RInStr	Returns the position of the last occurrence of Pattern in String.
Right	Returns the Length last characters of an UTF-8 string.
UCase	Returns an UTF-8 string converted to upper case.
UCaseFirst	Since 3.3 Return the string with its first letter converted to upper case.
Upper	This is a synonymous for the String.UCase method.