STRING::FUNCTIONS 1g 205-09-09 laplante@plcb.ca GOWEB/STRING — String Library Overview

title: “STRING::FUNCTIONS” version: “1.0.27” date: 2025-09-09 author: “laplante@plcb.ca” section: “1g”

category: “GOWEB/STRING”

Description

The String functions library groups all available functions that operate on strings in the GOWEB environment.
Each function is documented individually and can be accessed via the string:: namespace or directly by its alias.

List of All Functions

• string::crc32 — Compute CRC32 checksum of a string
  
• string::error — Print formatted error to stderr and log file
  
• string::generror — Generate an error
  
• string::escape_html — Escape special characters for HTML
  
• string::escape_filename — Escape special characters for filenames
  
• string::explode — Split a string into an array
  
• string::find_all — Find all matches of a regex in a string
  
• string::find_all_string_submatch — Find all matches and submatches of a regex in a string
  
• string::format_money — Format a number as a currency string
  
• string::has_prefix — Check if a string starts with a prefix
  
• string::has_suffix — Check if a string ends with a suffix
  
• string::isascii — Check if a string contains only ASCII characters
  
• string::isblank — Check if a string contains only space and tab characters
  
• string::iscnrtl — Check if a string contains only control characters
  
• string::isspace — Check if a string contains only space characters
  
• string::isalnum — Check if a string contains only letters and numbers
  
• string::isalpha — Check if a string contains only letters
  
• string::isdigit — Check if a string contains only digits
  
• string::isgraph — Check if a string contains only printable non-space characters
  
• string::isinteger — Check if a string is an integer number
  
• string::isfloat — Check if a string is a floating-point number
  
• string::islower — Check if a string contains only lowercase letters
  
• string::isprint — Check if a string contains only printable characters
  
• string::isupper — Check if a string contains only uppercase letters
  
• string::isxdigit — Check if a string contains only hexadecimal digits
  
• string::join — Concatenate an array of strings
  
• string::length — Return length of string in bytes or characters
  
• string::mdHtml — Markdown to HTML
  
• string::mdText — Markdown to text
  
• string::escape_javascript — Escape a string for use inside JavaScript double quotes
  
• string::escape_json — Escape a string for safe inclusion in JSON
  
• string::escape_path — Escape a string for safe inclusion in a URL path
  
• string::unescape_path — Unescape a URL path string
  
• string::escape_sql — Escape a string for use in SQL statements
  
• string::escape_sql_table — Escape a string for use as an SQL table name
  
• string::uri_escape — Escape a string for use in a URL
  
• string::unescape_uri — Unescape a string from a URL
  
• string::lowercase — Convert string to lowercase
  
• string::ltrim — Trim leading whitespace
  
• string::printf — Formatted string output
  
• string::replace_re — Replace text using a regular expression
  
• string::rtrim — Trim trailing whitespace
  
• string::splitN — Split a string with a delimiter
  
• string::splitre — Split a string using a regular expression
  
• string::stringify — Convert JSON to string
  
• string::strip_html_tags — Remove HTML tags from a string
  
• string::trim — Trim leading and trailing whitespace
  
• string::trimSuffix — Remove a trailing suffix from a string
  
• string::uppercase — Convert string to uppercase
  
• string::unescape_html — Unescape special characters in HTML
  
• string::unstringify — Parse a JSON string
  
• Main Index
  

Version History

• 1.0.27 — 2025-09-09 — Added string::mdHtml and string::mdText
  
• 1.0.26 — 2024-12-22 — Added string::generrorf
  
• 1.0.25 — 2024-12-10 — Added string::has_prefix, string::has_suffix
  
• 1.0.24 — 2024-11-11 — Added string::trimSuffix
  
• 1.0.23 — 2024-05-08 — Added escape_javascript
  
• 1.0.22 — 2024-05-07 — Added escape_json
  
• 1.0.21 — 2024-05-02 — Added escape_sql, escape_sql_table
  
• 1.0.20 — 2024-04-30 — Added lowercase, uppercase
  
• 1.0.19 — 2024-04-29 — Added escape_filename
  
• 1.0.18 — 2024-04-16 — Added crc32
  
• 1.0.17 — 2024-04-15 — Added isxdigit
  
• 1.0.16 — 2024-04-14 — Added isprint
  
• 1.0.15 — 2024-04-12 — Added iscnrtl
  
• 1.0.14 — 2024-04-11 — Added isblank, isspace, isfloat, isinteger
  
• 1.0.13 — 2024-04-10 — Added isalnum, isalpha, isdigit
  
• 1.0.12 — 2024-04-08 — Added isascii
  
• 1.0.11 — 2024-03-26 — Added splitre
  
• 1.0.10 — 2024-03-26 — Added replace_all
  
• 1.0.9 — 2024-03-25 — Added find_all
  
• 1.0.8 — 2024-03-01 — Added errorf
  
• 1.0.7 — 2024-01-30 — Added uc
  
• 1.0.6 — 2024-01-26 — Added lc
  
• 1.0.5 — 2023-12-22 — Added strip_html_tags
  
• 1.0.4 — 2023-12-03 — Added rtrim, ltrim, trim
  
• 1.0.3 — 2023-11-28 — Added format_money
  
• 1.0.3 — 2023-11-12 — Added unstringify
  
• 1.0.2 — 2023-11-12 — Added path_escape, path_unescape, uri_escape, uri_unescape
  
• 1.0.1 — 2023-11-12 — Added escape_html
  
• 1.0.0 — 2023 — Initial version
  

See Also

• Index
• String Functions Main Documentation