Advanced Text

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The Advanced Text Functions consists of functions specific to the manipulation and utilization of text.

List of Advanced Text Functions

• Reverse Text: Reverses text.

• Number Format: Places commas into numbers to make the numbers readable.

• Levenshtein Distance: Calculates levenshtein distance between two strings.

• Clean Text: Trim and replace multiple spaces with a single space.

• Character List: Returns a list of individual characters within a string.

• Swap Case: Returns a copy of the string in which all the case based characters have their case swapped.

• Count Text: Counts the number of times a substring appears in text.

• Escape HTML: Converts HTML characters to their entity equivalents.

• Unescape HTML: Converts entity characters to their HTML equivalents.

• Is Blank: Determines whether text is empty or contains only white space. Returns True or False.

• Is Number: Determines whether text is a number. Returns True or False.

• Starts With: Checks whether a string begins with specified text.

• Ends With: Checks whether a string ends with specified text.

• Camelize: Converts underscored or dasherized string into a camelized one. Begins with a lower case letter unless it starts with an underscore, dash or uppercase letter.

• Classify: Converts string to camelized class name. First letter is always upper case.

• Underscored: Converts camelized or dasherized string to an underscored one.

• Dasherize: Converts camelized or underscored string to dasherized one.

• Humanize: Converts an underscored, dasherized or camelized string into a humanized one. Also removes beginning and ending whitespace, and removed the postfix '_id'.

• Truncate: Cuts text at a specific location, replacing it with "...".

• Prune: Elegant version of truncate. Makes sure the pruned string does not exceed the original length. Avoid half chopped words when truncating.

• Strip Tags: Removes all html tags from string.

• Words: Returns a list of words from a specified text.

• To Sentences: Joins an arrays into human readable sentences.

• Repeat Text: Repeat strings a specified number of times.

• Surround Text: Surrounds text with other text.

• Sluggify: Transforms text into an ascii slug which can be used safely in urls. Replaces whitespaces, accentuated and special characters with a dash. Limited set of non-ascii characters are transformed into similar versions in the ascii character set such as ä to a.

• Word Count: Returns the number of words in text.