Module gears.string
String module for gears
Functions
| xml_escape (text) | Escape a string from XML char. |
| xml_unescape (text) | Unescape a string from entities. |
| linecount (text) | Count number of lines in a string |
| linewrap (text, width, indent) | Split a string into multiple lines |
| quote_pattern () | Escape all special pattern-matching characters so that lua interprets them literally instead of as a character class. |
| query_to_pattern (s) | Generate a pattern matching expression that ignores case. |
| split (str, delimiter) | Split separates a string containing a delimiter into the list of substrings between that delimiter. |
| startswith (str, sub) | Check if a string starts with another string |
| endswith (str, sub) | Check if a string ends with another string |
Functions
Methods- xml_escape (text)
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Escape a string from XML char.
Useful to set raw text in textbox.
- text Text to escape.
Returns:
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Escape text.
- xml_unescape (text)
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Unescape a string from entities.
- text Text to unescape.
Returns:
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Unescaped text.
- linecount (text)
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Count number of lines in a string
- text string Input string.
Returns:
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int
Number of lines.
- linewrap (text, width, indent)
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Split a string into multiple lines
- text String to wrap.
- width Maximum length of each line. Default: 72.
- indent Number of spaces added before each wrapped line. Default: 0.
Returns:
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The string with lines wrapped to width.
- quote_pattern ()
- Escape all special pattern-matching characters so that lua interprets them literally instead of as a character class. Source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/20778724/15690
- query_to_pattern (s)
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Generate a pattern matching expression that ignores case.
- s Original pattern matching expression.
- split (str, delimiter)
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Split separates a string containing a delimiter into the list of
substrings between that delimiter.
Returns:
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table
list of the substrings
- startswith (str, sub)
- Check if a string starts with another string
- endswith (str, sub)
- Check if a string ends with another string