Icetips Utilities Documentation 8/11/2011     String Class Overview

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The string class has some very powerful string methods, including methods to read an entire file into a string buffer and write a string buffer to a file.  It can also parse a string into lines or into words. 

Check out the short tutorial at the end of this chapter.

ITStringClass            Class(ITUtilityClass),TYPE,Module('ITStringClass.clw'),Link('ITStringClass',_ITUtilLinkMode_),DLL(_ITUtilDllMode_)

BufferSize                 Long

FileString                 &String

Lines                      &ITLinesQ

ResStr                     &String,PRIVATE

TempS                      &String,PRIVATE

Words                      &ITWordQ

WordCounter                Long

HTMLString                 &String

SplitStringProgressFEQ     Long  !! Optional FEQ for a progress control to show progress when splitting large strings

DepunctuationString        String(255)

AddIntoParentheses         Procedure(String pOriginal, String pAddition, <*CString pSeparator>),String

AddLine                    Procedure(String pLine, Byte pNew=False)

AllocateFileString         Procedure(Long pBytesToAllocate)

AppendToLine               Procedure(String pLine)

CombineFieldName           Procedure(String pFieldName, String pPrefix,<String pTableName>),String

CompactString              Procedure(String pOriginal, Byte pUpperCase=False),String

CompareAndExtract          Procedure(String pOriginal, String pSearchFor),String

DebugLines                 Procedure

DepunctuateString          Procedure(*String pS, Byte pAllowDigits=False)

DisposeFileString          Procedure

DumpLinesInQ               Procedure(Queue pQ, *? pLineField, <*? pLineLenField>)

FileToString               Procedure(String pFileName),String

FreeString                 Procedure(Byte pWords=0)

GetFieldPrefix             Procedure(String pFieldName),String

GetLine                    Procedure(Long pIndex),String

GetWord                    Procedure(Long pIndex),String

MatchParenthesis           Procedure(String pS),Short

PadString                  Procedure(String pStr, String pPad, Short pLen, Byte pStart=0),String

ReadFileToString           Procedure(String pFileName),Long,PROC

SetDepunctuationString     Procedure(String pDepunct)

SetLineValue               Procedure(String pLine)

SetSplitStringProgress     Procedure(Long pProgressFEQ)

SplitFieldName             Procedure(String pFieldName, <*String pPrefix>),String

SplitString                Procedure(String pStr,String pDelimiter),Long,PROC

StringToLines              Procedure(String pS),Long,PROC

StringToWords              Procedure(String pS, Byte pCount=True, Byte pCaseSensitive=False),Long,PROC

StripParenthesis           Procedure(String pTxt, <String pParLeft>,<String pParRight>),String

UseEither                  Procedure(String pS1, String pS2, Byte pFavourite=1),String

WriteQToFile               Procedure(String pFileName)

WriteStringToFile          Procedure(String pFileName, String pContent),Long,PROC

Construct                  Procedure

Destruct                   Procedure

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