string

Formatting, trimming, splitting and regular expressions.

from "string" import ...

Functions

endswith	pure fastcall endswith(str: string, suffix: string): bool	Returns whether `str` ends with `suffix`.
escape	pure escape(str: string): string	Returns `str` with backslash, the two quote characters, and every byte that is not printable ASCII replaced by an escape sequence.
format	pure format(fmt: string, ...): string	Formats `fmt` with the following arguments, following the syntax of the C `printf` family, and returns the result as a new string.
lstrip	pure fastcall lstrip(str: string): string	Returns `str` with white-space characters removed from the beginning only.
printf	printf(fmt: string, ...)	Formats `fmt` with the following arguments and writes the result to the same output as `print`, without building and returning a throwaway string.
rstrip	pure fastcall rstrip(str: string): string	Returns `str` with white-space characters removed from the end only.
split_by_chars	split_by_chars(str: string, separators: string, [skip_empty: bool]): array	Splits `str` into an array of strings at every character that occurs in `separators`.
startswith	pure fastcall startswith(str: string, prefix: string): bool	Returns whether `str` begins with `prefix`.
strip	pure fastcall strip(str: string): string	Returns `str` with white-space characters removed from both ends.

A compiled regular expression.

capture	instance.capture(str: string, [start: int]): array\|null	Finds the first match of the pattern in `str` at or after `start`, and returns the whole match plus every capturing group as an array of spans.
constructor	constructor(pattern: string): instance	Compiles `pattern` into a reusable `regexp` instance.
match	instance.match(str: string): bool	Returns whether the pattern matches the whole of `str`.
search	instance.search(str: string, [start: int]): table\|null	Finds the first match of the pattern in `str` at or after `start`, and returns its span.
subexpcount	instance.subexpcount(): int	Returns how many sub-expressions the pattern has.