Standard Library: Text & Strings

Text helpers are UTF-8 aware: len(string) and indices count Unicode code points, not bytes.

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Functions

Function	Signature	Description
len	len(s: str): int	Code-point count
textUpper	textUpper(s: str): str	Uppercase
textLower	textLower(s: str): str	Lowercase
textTrim	textTrim(s: str): str	Strip leading/trailing whitespace
textContains	textContains(s: str, sub: str): bool	Substring test
textFind	textFind(s: str, sub: str): int?	First index, or null
textSlice	textSlice(s: str, start: int, end?: int): str	Slice by code points
textSplit	textSplit(s: str, delim: str): array	Split on delimiter
textReplace	textReplace(s: str, from: str, to: str): str	Replace occurrences

There is no import std.text. Call these as globals.

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Examples

const pieces = textSplit("one::two::three", "::");
const line = textTrim("  alice , admin  ");
const columns = textSplit(line, ",");
print(textContains("hello", "ell"), pieces[0], textLower("API"));