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String

String functions.

• Globals
  • CheckUTF8MBS(data as ptr, size as Integer, Placeholder as string) as string
  • CheckUTF8MBS(data as string, Placeholder as string) as string
  • CheckUTF8MBS(mem as MemoryBlock, Placeholder as string) as string
  • ClearStringContentMBS(s as String) as Boolean
  • ConcatBinaryStringsMBS(a as string, b as string) as string
  • ConcatBinaryStringsMBS(a as string, b as string, c as string) as string
  • ConcatBinaryStringsMBS(a as string, b as string, c as string, d as string) as string
  • ConcatBinaryStringsMBS(a as string, b as string, c as string, d as string, e as string) as string
  • ConcatBinaryStringsMBS(a as string, b as string, c as string, d as string, e as string, f as string) as string
  • ContainsWholeWordMBS(Text as String, Word as String) as boolean
  • ConvertUnicodeToCharacterCompositionMBS(text as string) as string
  • ConvertUnicodeToCharacterDecompositionMBS(text as string) as string
  • CountOccurancesMBS(s as string, find as string) as Integer
  • CreateStringMBS(Length as Integer, Content as String) as string
  • DecodingFromCP1252MBS(s as string) as string
  • DecodingFromHexMBS(s as string) as string
  • DecodingFromHTMLMBS(s as string) as string
  • DecodingFromISO8859MBS(s as string) as string
  • DecodingFromMySQLMBS(s as string) as string
  • DecodingFromQuotedPrintableMBS(s as string) as string
  • DecodingFromURLMBS(s as string) as string
  • DecodingFromURLMBS(s as string, options as Integer) as string
  • DecodingFromXMLMBS(s as string) as string
  • DetectUnicodeMarkersMBS(s as string) as Integer
  • EncodeEmailSubjectMBS(s as string) as string
  • EncodingNameMBS(extends Text as string) as string
  • EncodingToCP1252MBS(s as string) as string
  • EncodingToHexMBS(s as string) as string
  • EncodingToHTMLMBS(s as string, options as Integer = 0) as string
  • EncodingToISO8859MBS(s as string) as string
  • EncodingToQuotedPrintableMBS(s as string, LineLen as Integer = 72) as string
  • EncodingToURLMBS(s as string) as string
  • EncodingToURLMBS(s as string, options as Integer) as string
  • EncodingToXMLMBS(s as string, options as Integer = 0) as string
  • GetStringsFromDataMBS(data as MemoryBlock, MinLength as Integer = 0) as string()
  • GetStringsFromDataMBS(data as ptr, size as Integer, MinLength as Integer = 0) as string()
  • GetStringsFromDataMBS(data as String, MinLength as Integer = 0) as string()
  • GetUnicodeMarkersMBS(kind as Integer) as string
  • HasPostfixMBS(Text as String, Prefix as String) as boolean
  • HasPrefixMBS(Text as String, Prefix as String) as boolean
  • HexstringMBS(input as string, hexlen as Integer, linelen as Integer, linestart as string, lineend as string, spacer as string,filler as string) as string
  • InStrByteRangeMBS(target as string, find as string, StartValue as Integer, EndValue as Integer) as Integer
  • InStrByteRangeMBS(target as string, find as string, StartValue as Integer, EndValue as Integer, StartValue2 as Integer, EndValue2 as Integer) as Integer
  • InStrByteRangeMBS(target as string, find as string, StartValue as Integer, EndValue as Integer, StartValue2 as Integer, EndValue2 as Integer, StartValue3 as Integer, EndValue3 as Integer) as Integer
  • InStrByteRangeMBS(target as string, StartValue as Integer, EndValue as Integer) as Integer
  • InStrByteRangeMBS(target as string, StartValue as Integer, EndValue as Integer, StartValue2 as Integer, EndValue2 as Integer) as Integer
  • InStrByteRangeMBS(target as string, StartValue as Integer, EndValue as Integer, StartValue2 as Integer, EndValue2 as Integer, StartValue3 as Integer, EndValue3 as Integer) as Integer
  • InStrBytesMBS(target as string, find as string) as Integer
  • IsASCIIStringMBS(s as string) as boolean
  • IsASCIIStringMBS(s as string, mode as Integer) as boolean
  • JaroWinklerDistanceMBS(a as string, b as string) as Double
  • JoinDataMBS(blocks() as memoryblock) as string
  • JoinDataMBS(strings() as string) as string
  • JoinDataMBS(values() as Variant) as string
  • JoinStringMBS(strings() as string) as string
  • JoinStringMBS(values() as Variant) as string
  • LevenshteinDistanceMBS(a as string, b as string) as Double
  • NativeStringMBS(s as string) as string
  • RandomBytesStringMBS(Length as Integer, ASCII as boolean=false) as string
  • RemoveAccentsMBS(text as string, IgnoreCase as boolean = false) as string
  • RemoveHTMLTagsMBS(AsciiTextWithTags as string) as string
  • RemoveHTMLTagsWithMBS(AsciiTextWithTags as string, Replacement as string) as string
  • ReplaceLineEndingsMBS(Text as String, NewLine as String, yield as boolean = false) as String
  • ReplaceNonPrintableCharactersMBS(s as string, replacevalue as Integer=46) as string
  • ScientificStrMBS(d as Double, digits as Integer) as string
  • SplitCommaSeparatedValuesMBS(text as string, delimiter as string = "", quote as string = "") as string()
  • SplitMBS(value as String, delimiter as String = " ") as String()
  • SQLReplaceBooleanMBS(SQL as string) as string
  • StrCompBytesMBS(a as string, b as string) as Integer
  • StrCompCharactersMBS(a as string, b as string) as Integer
  • StringANDMBS(a as string,b as string) as string
  • StringCodePointsMBS(text as string) as UInt32()
  • StringIsHTMLreadyMBS(s as string) as boolean
  • StringIsXMLreadyMBS(s as string) as boolean
  • StringORMBS(a as string,b as string) as string
  • StringXOR2MBS(data as string, XorMask as string, MaskOffset as Integer = 0) as string
  • StringXORMBS(data as string, XorMask as string, MaskOffset as Integer = 0) as string
  • StrMBS(d as Double) as string
  • UnicodeStringMBS(s as string) as string
• Classes
  • class StringHandleMBS
    • method Add(data as MemoryBlock)
    • method Add(data as Ptr, size as Integer)
    • method Add(data as string)
    • method Add(data as StringHandleMBS)
    • method AddByte(value as UInt8)
    • method AddInteger(value as Int64)
    • method Clear
    • method clone as StringHandleMBS
    • method Constructor
    • method Constructor(InitValue as MemoryBlock)
    • method Constructor(initvalue as string)
    • method Copy as string
    • method CopyMemory as MemoryBlock
    • method Delete(start as Integer, lengthBytes as Integer)
    • method Extract(start as Integer, lengthBytes as Integer) as string
    • method FindByte(value as UInt8, StartByteOffset as Integer = 1) as Integer
    • method FindByte(values() as UInt8, StartByteOffset as Integer = 1) as Integer
    • method FirstNonWhiteSpace(StartByteOffset as Integer = 1) as Integer
    • method FirstWhiteSpace(StartByteOffset as Integer = 1) as Integer
    • method Insert(data as string, position as Integer)
    • method InStr(OffsetBytes as Integer = 1, target as String, EndOffsetBytes as Integer = -1) as Integer
    • method InStrUTF8(OffsetCharacters as Integer = 1, target as String, EndOffsetCharacters as Integer = -1) as Integer
    • shared method IsValidASCII(data as ptr, TotalByteLength as integer) as Boolean
    • shared method IsValidUTF8(data as ptr, TotalByteLength as integer) as Boolean
    • method Left(lengthBytes as Integer) as string
    • method LeftUTF8(lengthCharacter as integer) as string
    • method Mid(startByte as Integer, lengthBytes as Integer) as string
    • method MidInteger(startByte As Integer, lengthBytes As Integer = -1) as Int64
    • method MidUTF8(startCharacter as integer, lengthCharacter as integer) as string
    • method Replace(a as String, b as string)
    • method Replace(startpos as Integer, a as String, b as string)
    • method ReplaceAll(a as String, b as string)
    • method ReplaceAll(startpos as Integer, a as String, b as string)
    • method Reverse as StringHandleMBS
    • method Right(lengthBytes as Integer) as string
    • method RightUTF8(lengthCharacter as integer) as string
    • method Truncate(lengthBytes as Integer)
    • method TruncateUTF8(lengthCharacters as integer)
    • shared method UTF8Length(data as ptr, TotalByteLength as integer) as Integer
    • shared method UTF8LengthToBytes(data as ptr, TotalByteLength as integer, Characters as Integer) as Integer
    • property BlockLen as Int64
    • property BlockSize as Int64
    • property Encoding as Int64
    • property Len as Int64
    • property LenUTF8 as Int64
    • property ReplaceCount as Int64
    • property ValidASCII as Boolean
    • property ValidUTF8 as Boolean
    • property UInt16Value(offset as Integer) as UInt16
    • property UInt32Value(offset as Integer) as UInt32
    • property UInt8Value(offset as Integer) as UInt8
  • class TextConverterMBS
    • shared method Canonicalize(name as String) as String
    • method Constructor
    • method Convert
    • shared method EncodingNames(Mode as Integer = 0) as String()
    • shared method LoadIconvLibrary(path as String, byref Error as String) as boolean
    • property ErrorCode as Integer
    • property ErrorMessage as String
    • property Ignore as Boolean
    • property Input as String
    • property InputData as MemoryBlock
    • property InputEncoding as String
    • property InputPosition as Integer
    • shared property LibVersion as Integer
    • property Output as String
    • property OutputEncoding as String
    • property OutputLength as Integer
    • property Translit as Boolean
• Class Extensions
  • class TextEncoding
    • method InternetNameMBS as string
• Blog Entries
  • MBS Xojo plug-ins in version 16.0

Release notes

• Version 24.0
  • Fixed bug in RemoveHTMLTagsMBS function removing quoted texts.
  • Moved TextConverterMBS class to MBS Xojo XML Plugin.
  • Optimized text handling to be faster, which affects various string functions like ContainsWholeWordMBS.
• Version 23.5
  • Added Constructor to StringHandleMBS class taking MemoryBlock.
  • Fixed edge case for EncodingToHTMLMBS function on Linux.
• Version 22.5
  • Improved SplitCommaSeparatedValuesMBS to better handle quotes in the middle of the text.
• Version 22.4
  • Fixed a problem with SplitCommaSeparatedValuesMBS not parsing properly quoted multi line value.
• Version 22.2
  • Optimized SplitCommaSeparatedValuesMBS to better handle lonely quotes in quoted strings.
  • Updated RemoveAccentsMBS function to recognize more characters like ½.
• Version 22.1
  • Added Add method for StringHandleMBS class to add another StringHandleMBS object.
  • Added ContainsWholeWordMBS function.
  • Improved performance for ConvertUnicodeToCharacterDecompositionMBS and ConvertUnicodeToCharacterCompositionMBS functions.
• Version 21.3
  • Added Clear method to StringHandleMBS class.
  • Added option to pass array and start position to FindByte function in StringHandleMBS class.
  • Added StringCodePointsMBS function.
  • Added UInt32Value, UInt8Value and UInt16Value to StringHandleMBS class.
• Version 21.1
  • Fixed bug in Reverse method in StringHandleMBS class.
  • Fixed possible crash in CheckUTF8MBS function.
• Version 20.4
  • Added LoadIconvLibrary method for ArchiverMBS, XMLValidatorMBS, zxingReaderMBS, GMImageMBS and TextConverterMBS classes for helping with text encodings if needed.

The items on this page are in the following plugins: MBS DataTypes Plugin, MBS Util Plugin.