String functions in Adobe Workfront Fusion

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ascii (text; [remove diacritics])

Removes all non-ascii characters from a text string.

base64 (text)

Transforms text to base64.

capitalize (text)

Converts the first character in a text string to uppercase.

contains (text; search string)

Verifies whether text contains the search string.

decodeURL (text)

Decodes special characters in a URL to text.

encodeURL (text)

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

escapeHTML (text)

Escapes all HTML tags in text.

escapeMarkdown(text)

Escapes all Markdown tags in text.

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.

length (text or buffer)

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

lower (text)

Converts all alphabetical characters in a text string to lowercase.

md5 (text)

Calculates the md5 hash of a string.

replace (text;search string; replacement string)

Replaces the search string with the new string.

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

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.

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.”

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”.>

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.

split (text; separator)

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

startcase (text)

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

stripHTML (text)

Removes all HTML tags from text.

substring (text; start;end)

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

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.

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.