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String

Functions​

escapePattern​

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String.escapePattern(s: string) → string

Escape magic string pattern characters: % . ( ) [ ] + - * ? ^ $

escapeRichText​

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String.escapeRichText(s: string) → string

Escape RichText tags

unescapeRichText​

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String.unescapeRichText(s: string) → string

Unescape RichText tags

levenshteinDistance​

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String.levenshteinDistance(
s1: string,
s2: string
) → number

Calculates the Levenshtein distance between two strings.

splitOutsideQuotes​

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String.splitOutsideQuotes(
text: string,
delimiter: string?
) → {string}?

Splits a string by a specified delimiter, but does not split within quoted sequences.

stripQuotes​

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String.stripQuotes(s: string) → string

Strip enclosing quotes from a string

trimStart​

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String.trimStart(s: string) → string

Strip whitespace from the start of a string

trimEnd​

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String.trimEnd(s: string) → string

Strip whitespace from the end of a string

trim​

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String.trim(s: string) → string

Strip whitespace from both ends of a string

filterResult​

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String.filterResult(
message: string,
fromUserId: number,
filterContext: Enum.TextFilterContext?
) → (
boolean,
)

filterResultForBroadcast​

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String.filterResultForBroadcast(
filterResult: TextFilterResult | string,
fromUserId: number
) → ()

Filters a TextFilterResult for broadcast messages with TextService.FilterStringAsync

filterResultForUser​

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String.filterResultForUser(
filterResult: TextFilterResult | string,
fromUserId: number,
toUserId: number
) → ()

Filters a TextFilterResult for chat messages chat with TextService.FilterStringAsync

filterForBroadcast​

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String.filterForBroadcast(
message: string,
fromUserId: number,
filterContext: Enum.TextFilterContext?
) → string

Filters a broadcast message with TextService.FilterStringAsync

filterForUser​

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String.filterForUser(
message: string,
fromUserId: number,
toUserId: number,
filterContext: Enum.TextFilterContext?
) → string

Filters a chat message with TextService.FilterStringAsync

toFlag​

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String.toFlag(locale: string) → string

Converts a locale string (e.g., "US") to a flag emoji representation, or an empty string if the locale is invalid.

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