Strings

A reference document listing built-in convenience functions to support data transformation in expressions for strings.

base64Encode(): A base64 encoded string.

Encode a string as base64.

base64Decode(): A plain string.

Convert a base64 encoded string to a normal string.

extractDomain(): String

Extracts a domain from a string containing a valid URL. Returns undefined if none is found.

extractEmail(): String

Extracts an email from a string. Returns undefined if none is found.

extractUrl(): String

Extracts a URL from a string. Returns undefined if none is found.

extractUrlPath(): String

Extract the path but not the root domain from a URL. For example, "https://example.com/orders/1/details".extractUrlPath() returns "/orders/1/details/".

hash(algo?: Algorithm): String

Returns a string hashed with the given algorithm.

Function parameters

• algo (OPTIONAL, STRING ENUM): Which hashing algorithm to use.

  Default: md5

  One of: md5, base64, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512, sha3, ripemd160

isDomain(): Boolean

Checks if a string is a domain.

isEmail(): Boolean

Checks if a string is an email.

isEmpty(): Boolean

Checks if a string is empty.

isNotEmpty(): Boolean

Checks if a string has content.

isNumeric(): Boolean

Checks if a string only contains digits.

isUrl(): Boolean

Checks if a string is a valid URL.

parseJson(): Object

Equivalent of JSON.parse(). Parses a string as a JSON object.

quote(mark?: String): String

Returns a string wrapped in the quotation marks. Default quotation is ".

Function parameters

• mark (OPTIONAL, STRING): Which quote mark style to use.

  Default: "

removeMarkdown(): String

Removes Markdown formatting from a string.

replaceSpecialChars(): String

Replaces non-ASCII characters in a string with an ASCII representation.

removeTags(): String

Remove tags, such as HTML or XML, from a string.

toBoolean(): Boolean

Convert a string to a boolean. "false", "0", "", and "no" convert to false.

toDateTime(): Date

Converts a string to a Luxon date object.

toDecimalNumber(): Number

See toFloat

toFloat(): Number

Converts a string to a decimal number.

toInt(): Number

Converts a string to an integer.

toSentenceCase(): String

Formats a string to sentence case.

toSnakeCase(): String

Formats a string to snake case.

toTitleCase(): String

Formats a string to title case. Will not change already uppercase letters to prevent losing information from acronyms and trademarks such as iPhone or FAANG.

toWholeNumber(): Number

Converts a string to a whole number.

urlDecode(entireString?: Boolean): String

Decodes a URL-encoded string. It decodes any percent-encoded characters in the input string, and replaces them with their original characters.

Function parameters

• entireString (OPTIONAL, BOOLEAN): Whether to decode characters that are part of the URI syntax (true) or not (false).

urlEncode(entireString?: Boolean): String

Encodes a string to be used/included in a URL.

Function parameters

• entireString (OPTIONAL, BOOLEAN): Whether to encode characters that are part of the URI syntax (true) or not (false).