JString/1.5

JString

Methods

Visibility	Method name	Description
public	strlen	UTF-8 aware alternative to strlen Returns the number of characters in the string (NOT THE NUMBER OF BYTES),.
public	strtolower	UTF-8 aware alternative to strtlower Make a string lowercase Note: The concept of a characters "case" only exists is some alphabets such as Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and archaic Georgian - it does not exist in the Chinese alphabet, for example.
public	strtoupper	UTF-8 aware alternative to strtoupper Make a string uppercase Note: The concept of a characters "case" only exists is some alphabets such as Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and archaic Georgian - it does not exist in the Chinese alphabet, for example.
public	ltrim	UTF-8 aware replacement for Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string Note: you only need to use this if you are supplying the charlist optional arg and it contains UTF-8 characters.
public	rtrim	UTF-8 aware replacement for Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the end of a string Note: you only need to use this if you are supplying the charlist optional arg and it contains UTF-8 characters.
public	str_ireplace	UTF-8 aware alternative to str_ireplace Case-insensitive version of str_replace.
public	str_split	UTF-8 aware alternative to str_split Convert a string to an array.
public	strcasecmp	UTF-8 aware alternative to strcasecmp A case insensivite string comparison.
public	strcspn	UTF-8 aware alternative to strcspn Find length of initial segment not matching mask.
public	stristr	UTF-8 aware alternative to stristr Returns all of haystack from the first occurrence of needle to the end.
public	strpos	UTF-8 aware alternative to strpos Find position of first occurrence of a string.
public	strrev	UTF-8 aware alternative to strrev Reverse a string.
public	strrpos	UTF-8 aware alternative to strrpos Finds position of last occurrence of a string.
public	strspn	UTF-8 aware alternative to strspn Find length of initial segment matching mask.
public	substr	UTF-8 aware alternative to substr Return part of a string given character offset (and optionally length).
public	substr_replace	UTF-8 aware substr_replace Replace text within a portion of a string.
public	transcode	Transcode a string.
public	trim	UTF-8 aware replacement for Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string Note: you only need to use this if you are supplying the charlist optional arg and it contains UTF-8 characters.
public	ucfirst	UTF-8 aware alternative to ucfirst Make a string's first character uppercase.
public	ucwords	UTF-8 aware alternative to ucwords Uppercase the first character of each word in a string.

• Defined in libraries/joomla/utilities/string.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.utilities.string' );

See also

• JString on api.joomla.org
• JString source code on JoomlaCode
• Subpackage Utilities
• Other versions of JString

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