String manipulation routines

Table of Contents

String::CAlnum -

String::CAlpha -

String::CDigit -

String::CGraph -

String::CLower -

String::CPrint -

String::CPunct -

String::CSpace -

String::CUpper -

String::CXdigit -

String::CutBlanks - Remove blanks at begin and end of input string.

String::CutRegexMatch - Remove first or every match of given regular expression from a string

String::CutZeros - Remove any leading zeros

String::EscapeTags - Function for escaping (replacing) (HTML|XML...) tags with their (HTML|XML...) meaning.

String::FirstChunk - Shorthand for select (splitstring (s, separators), 0, "") Useful now that the above produces a deprecation warning.

String::FormatSize - Return a pretty description of a byte count

String::FormatSizeWithPrecision - Return a pretty description of a byte count

String::Pad - Add spaces after the text to make it long enough

String::PadZeros - Add zeros before the text to make it long enough.

String::ParseOptions - Parse string of values

String::Quote - Quote a string with 's

String::UnQuote - Unquote a string with 's (quoted with quote)

String::ValidCharsFilename - Characters valid in a filename (not pathname). Naturally "/" is disallowed. Otherwise, the graphical ASCII characters are allowed.