String of UDF Library

Functions53 public, 1 private

Returns the numbers of bytes required for the provided string using the specified encoding.
public	numeric	byteLen

required	string	value

	string	encoding	UTF-8
Appends/Prepends the specified character(s) to the provided string until the desired total length is reached.
public	string	cJustify

required	string	string
If the final length is odd, the remaining character will be appended.
required	string	length
If you specify multiple characters, it will be repeated like a single character.
	string	character
Returns if the provided string contains an HTML tag or entity. Self-closing tags are only considered HTML if they are part of the spec.
public	boolean	containsHtml

required	string	content
Returns the number of matches found for the specified string (needle) in the provided string (haystack).
public	numeric	countMatches

required	any	haystack

required	string	needle
Counts the number of words found in the provided string. A word is separated by whitespaces or symbols.
public	numeric	countWords

required	any	input
Creates a UUID with Base64url encoding. The "short" UUID consists of 22 characters and digits.
public	string	createShortUUID
Converts the provided UUID (HEX encoded) to GUID (HEX encoded).
public	string	createGUID

	string	uuid	createUUID()
Creates a UUID with HEX encoding and removes the dashes. The UUID consists of 32 uppercase hexadecimal characters.
public	string	createUUID

public	boolean	endsWith

required	any	string

required	any	value

public	boolean	endsWithNoCase

required	any	string

required	any	value
Corrects the length of the provided string considering the specified minimum/maximum length.
public	string	fixLength

required	string	source

	numeric	min	0

	numeric	max	0

	string	fill	_
Corrects the length of the provided string padding the specified minimum length.
public	string	fixMinLength

required	string	source

required	numeric	min

	string	fill	_
Corrects the length of the provided string truncating the specified maximum length.
public	string	fixMaxLength

required	string	source

required	numeric	max
The ellipsis … is placed within the string and will not exceed the maximum.
	string	ellipsis
Replaces occurences of placeholder marks in the provided string with the specified values in order. Default placeholder mark is: %s
public	string	format
String that contains placeholder marks to be replaced.
required	string	source
Collection of values to replace the placeholder marks in order.
required	any	values

	struct	OPTIONS

option	string	placeholder	%s
if there are more placeholders than values, keep the remaining placeholders
option	boolean	keepRemainingPlaceholders	false
how to repeat values in case there are more placeholder marks than values
option	"ALL", "LAST", "NONE"	repeatArgs	NONE
Generates a human friendly sequence of (47) random characters.
public	string	generateClearString
Length of the generated sequence.
required	numeric	length
Generates a human friendly sequence of (27) random characters.
public	string	generateClearStringNoCase
Length of the generated sequence.
required	numeric	length
Generates a sequence of random characters.
public	string	generateRandomString
Length of the generated sequence.
required	numeric	length
Possible characters to appear in the generated sequence.
	array	characterSet

public	string	generateRandomWords

required	numeric	count

	string	delimiter	-
Converts the provided HTML content to plain text.
public	string	htmlToPlain
The HTML content to strip down to plain text.
required	string	html
Allow transforming common elements to their plain representation.
	boolean	transform	true
Returns if the provided string is considered as literal for regular expression.
public	string	isReLiteral

required	any	value
Calculates the phonetics for the provided word(s) based on the Cologne phonetics by Hans-Joachim Postel.
public	string	koelnerPhonetik
Word(s) to calculate the phonetics for.
required	any	value
Calculate words divided by spaces separately.
	boolean	separateWords	false
Appends the specified character(s) to the provided string until the desired total length is reached.
public	string	lJustify

required	string	string

required	string	length
If you specify multiple characters, it will be repeated like a single character.
	string	character
Removes all obsolete white spaces (tabs, newlines, spaces) in the provided string. Only keeps single spaces.
public	string	minifyString

required	string	value
Normalizes all newlines to linefeed (10) in the provided string.
public	string	normalizeNewLines

required	string	source
Normalizes the provided string by using title case and removing obsolete whitespaces.
public	string	normalizeString

required	string	value

	NONE, COMPANY, PERSON	type	NONE
Pads any digit sequence in the provided string to the specified length
public	string	padDigits

required	string	value

required	numeric	padding

	struct	OPTIONS	{}

option	"DIGIT", "NUMERIC"	sequenceMode	DIGIT
Converts the provided plain text to HTML.
public	string	plainToHtml

required	string	text
Visualizes whitespaces in the provided string by replacing non-printable characters into printable characters.
public	string	printWhitespaces
String that contains the whitespaces to visualize.
required	string	source

	struct	wsMap
Prepends the specified character(s) to the provided string until the desired total length is reached.
public	string	rJustify

required	string	string

required	string	length
If you specify multiple characters, it will be repeated like a single character.
	string	character
Escapes the provided string for usage within regular expressions.
public	string	reEscape

required	string	value
Extends ColdFusion's reFindNoCase by accepted data types.
public	numeric	reFindNoCase

required	any	expression

required	any	data
Returns the matching groups found in the provided string using the specified regular expression. POSIX: captures all groups (supports lookbehind) JORO: captures first match only (does not support lookbehind)
public	array	reMatchGroup

required	string, Pattern	regex

required	string	value

	"JORO", "POSIX"	engine	POSIX
Returns the matching groups found in the provided string using the specified regular expression. POSIX: captures all groups (supports lookbehind) JORO: captures first match only (does not support lookbehind)
public	array	reMatchGroupNoCase

required	string	regex

required	string	value

	"JORO", "POSIX"	engine	POSIX
Replaces the last occurence of the specified string(s) with the provided string.
public	string	replaceLastOccurenceOf

required	string	target

required	string, string[]	search

required	string	replace
Replaces words (with boundaries left and right) with the provided list of words.
public	string	replaceWords

required	string	replaceIn

required	array	wordsToReplace

required	array	wordsToReplaceWith

	array	additionalBoundaries	[]
Invokes the provided callback for each regular expression match in the provided string.
public	string	reReplaceWithCallback

required	string	value

required	string	regex

required	function	callback

	boolean	returnGroups	false
Invokes the provided callback for each regular expression match in the provided string.
public	string	reReplaceNoCaseWithCallback

required	string	value

required	string	regex

required	function	callback

	boolean	returnGroups	false
Transforms the provided string to a regular expression. Flags will be ignored.
public	string	reTransform

required	string	value

public	boolean	startsWith

required	any	string

required	any	value

public	boolean	startsWithNoCase

required	any	string

required	any	value
Returns if the provided string contains any string in the provided array. Matching is case-insensitive.
public	boolean	stringContainsAny

required	string	value

required	array	elements
Converts the provided string to a CSS class friendly format.
public	string	toCssFriendly

required	string, string[]	value

	boolean	multiClass	true
Converts the provided string to a file name friendly format.
public	string	toFileFriendly

required	string	value

	string	spaceCharacter	_
Converts the provided string to a folder name friendly format.
public	string	toFolderFriendly

required	string	value

	string	spaceCharacter	_
Converts the provided string to an URL friendly format, typically used for SEO.
public	string	toSeoFriendly

required	string	value

	string	language

	struct	OPTIONS	{}

option	array	preserveCharacters	[]
Replaces all conflict-laden characters.
public	string	toSqlFriendly

required	string	value

public	string	toNameCase

required	string	value

required	"COMPANY", "PERSON"	type
Converts the first letter of each word to uppercase and the remaining letters to lowercase.
public	string	toTitleCase

required	string	value

	struct	OPTIONS	{}

option	numeric	lower	0

option	numeric	upper	0
Removes all empty lines within the provided string.
public	string	trimEmptyLines

required	any	value
Removes leading, trailing, consecutive and protected whitespaces.
public	string	trimExtended
String to remove whitespaces in.
required	string	value
Removes all tabs and obsolete newlines within the provided string.
public	string	trimIndentation

required	any	value

public	string	trimLeadingZeros

required	string	value
Compares each character of the provided strings and returns the remaining part of the first string that is not equal to the second string.
public	string	trimToDifference

required	string	valueA

required	string	valueB

	string	ellipsis