String functions in Adobe Workfront Fusion

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ascii (text; [remove diacritics])

Removes all non-ascii characters from a text string.

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Examples:

  • ascii( Wěošrčkřfžrýoáníté )

    Returns: Workfront

  • ascii( ěščřž ; true )

    Returns: escrz

base64 (text)

Transforms text to base64.

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Example:

base64( workfront )

Returns: d29ya2Zyb250==

capitalize (text)

Converts the first character in a text string to uppercase.

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Example:

capitalize( workfront )

Returns: Workfront

contains (text; search string)

Verifies whether text contains the search string.

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Examples:

  • contains( Hello World ; Hello )

    Returns: true

  • contains( Hello World ; Bye )

    Returns: false

decodeURL (text)

Decodes special characters in a URL to text.

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Example:
decodeURL( Automate%20your%20workflow )

Returns: Automate your workflow

encodeURL (text)

Encodes special characters in some text to a valid URL address.

escapeHTML (text)

Escapes all HTML tags in text.

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Example:

escapeHTML( <b>Hello</b> )

Returns: &lt;b&gt;Hello&lt;/b&gt;

escapeMarkdown(text)

Escapes all Markdown tags in text.

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Example:

escapeMarkdown( # Header )

Returns: # Header

indexOf (string; value; [start])

Returns the position of the first occurrence of a specified value in a string. This method returns ‘-1’ if the value that is searched for is not there. The start value indicates where in the string the search should begin.

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Examples:

  • indexOf( Workfront ; o )

    Returns: 1

  • indexOf( Workfront ; x )

    Returns: -1

  • indexOf( Workfront ; o ; 3 )

    Returns: 6

length (text or buffer)

Returns the length of text string (number of characters) or binary buffer (buffer size in bytes).

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Example:

length( hello )

Returns: 5

lower (text)

Converts all alphabetical characters in a text string to lowercase.

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Example:

lower( Hello )

Returns: hello

md5 (text)

Calculates the md5 hash of a string.

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Example:

md5( Workfront )

Returns: 1448bbbeaa7a9b8091d426999f1f666b

replace (text;search string; replacement string)

Replaces the search string with the new string.

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Example:

replace( Hello World ; Hello ; Hi )

Returns: Hi World

Regular expressions (enclosed in /.../) can be used as search string with a combination of flags (such as g, i, m) appended:

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Example:

All of these numbers X X X X are replaced with X

The replacement string can include the following special replacement patterns:

  • $& Inserts the matched substring.
  • $n Where n is a positive integer less than 100, inserts the nth parenthesized submatch string. This is 1-indexed.
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Examples:

Returns: Phone number +420777111222

Returns: Phone number: +420777111222

CAUTION

Do not use named capture groups such as / is (?<number>\d+)/ in the replacement string argument. Doing so results in an error.

For more information on regular expressions, see Text parser.

sha1 (text; [encoding]; [key])

Calculates the sha1 hash of a string. If the key argument is specified, sha1 HMAC hash is returned instead. Supported encodings: “hex” (default), “base64” or “latin1.”

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Example:

sha1( workfront )

Returns: b2b30b8ae1f9e5b40fbb0696eaabdbfd8d0c087f

sha256 (text; [encoding]; [key])

Calculates the sha256 hash of a string. If the key argument is specified, sha256 HMAC hash is returned instead. Supported encodings: “hex” (default), “base64” or “latin1”.>

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Example:

sha256( workfront )

Returns: ed3d7397eec7b94453035b67ba4468c883ee3bedeb57137f7371f2e0cf5e2bbc

sha512 (text; [output encoding]; [key]; [key encoding])

Calculates the sha512 hash of a string. If the key argument is specified, sha512 HMAC hash is returned instead.

Supported encodings:

  • “hex” (default)
  • “base64”
  • “latin1”

Supported key encodings:

  • “text” (default)
  • “hex”
  • “base64” or “binary”

When using “binary” key encoding, a key must be a buffer, not a string.

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Example:

sha512(workfront)

Returns: 789ae41b9456357e4f27c6a09956a767abbb8d80b206003ffdd1e94dbc687cd119b85e1e19db58bb44b234493af35fd431639c0345aadf2cf7ec26e9f4a7fb19

split (text; separator)

Splits a string into an array of strings by separating the string into substrings.

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Example:

split( John, George, Paul ; , )

startcase (text)

Capitalizes the first letter of every word and lower cases all other letters.

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Example:
startcase( hello WORLD )

Returns: Hello World

stripHTML (text)

Removes all HTML tags from text.

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Example:

stripHTML( <b>Hello</b> )

Returns: Hello

substring (text; start;end)

Returns a portion of a text string between the “start” position and “end” position.

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Examples:

  • substring( Hello ; 0 ; 3)

    Returns: Hel

  • substring( Hello ; 1 ; 3 )

    Returns: el

toBinary (value)

Converts any value to binary data.

You can also specify encoding as a second argument to apply binary conversions from hex or base64 to binary data.

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Examples:

  • toBinary( Workfront )

    Returns: 57 6f 72 6b 66 72 6f 6e 74

  • toBinary( V29ya2Zyb250 ; base64 )

    Returns: 57 6f 72 6b 66 72 6f 6e 74

toString (value)

Converts any value to a string.

trim (text)

Removes space characters at the start or end of the text.

upper (text)

Converts all alphabetical characters in a text string to uppercase.

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Example:

upper( Hello )

Returns: HELLO

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