Pike Manual

11.1 String

FUNCTION: String.fuzzymatch - make a fuzzy compare of two strings
SYNTAX: int fuzzymatch(string word1, string word2);
DESCRIPTION: This function compares two strings using a fuzzy matching routine. The higher the resulting value, the better the strings match.
EXAMPLE: > fuzzymatch("cat", "hat"); Result: 66 > fuzzymatch("cat", "dog"); Result: 0 > fuzzymatch("United States", "United Nations"); Result: 70
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FUNCTION: String.implode_nicely - make an English comma separated list
SYNTAX: string implode_nicely(array(string|float|int) words, string|void separator);
DESCRIPTION: This function implodes a list of words to a readable string. If the separator is omitted, the default is "and". If the words are numbers they are converet to strings first.
EXAMPLE: > implode_nicely(({"green"})); Result: green > implode_nicely(({"green","blue"})); Result: green and blue > implode_nicely(({"green","blue","white"})); Result: green, blue and white > implode_nicely(({"green","blue","white"}),"or"); Result: green, blue or white > implode_nicely(({1,2,3}),"or even"); Result: 1, 2 or even 3
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FUNCTION: String.capitalize - capitalize a string
SYNTAX: string capitalize(string str);
DESCRIPTION: Convert the first character in str to upper case, and return the new string.
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FUNCTION: String.common_prefix - find the longest common beginning
SYNTAX: string common_prefix(array(string) strs);
DESCRIPTION: Find the longest common beginning from an array of strings.
EXAMPLE: > String.common_prefix(({ "muzzle", "muzzy" })); Result: "muzz" > String.common_prefix(({ "labyrinth", "diatom" })); Result: "" > String.common_prefix(({})); Result: ""

FUNCTION: String.sillycaps - Sillycaps A String
SYNTAX: string sillycaps(string str);
DESCRIPTION: Convert the first character in each word (separated by spaces) in str to upper case, and return the new string.

FUNCTION: String.strmult - multiply strings
SYNTAX: string strmult(string s, int num);
DESCRIPTION: This function multiplies 's' by 'num'. The return value is the same as appending 's' to an empty string 'num' times.

FUNCTION: String.count - count needles in a haystack string
SYNTAX: string count(string haystack, string needle);
DESCRIPTION: This function counts the number of times the needle can be found in haystack. Intersections between needles are not counted, ie count("....","..") is 2.

FUNCTION: String.width - return width of string
SYNTAX: int width(string s);
DESCRIPTION: Returns the width in bits (8, 16 or 32) of the widest character in s.

FUNCTION: String.trim_all_whites - trim all white spaces from a string
SYNTAX: string trim_all_whites(string s);
DESCRIPTION: Trim leading and trailing white space characters (" \t\r\n") from the string s.