Text

Text prototype extensions

Import

_ <- fat.type.Text

Name	Signature	Brief
Text	(val: Any)	Coerces value to text, same as .toText

Name	Signature	Brief
isEmpty	(): Boolean	Return true if length is zero
nonEmpty	(): Boolean	Return true if non-zero length
size	(): Number	Return text length
toText	(): Text	Force text interpolation
replace	(old: Text, new: Text): Text	Replace old with new
indexOf	(frag: Text): Number	Get fragment index, -1 if absent
contains	(frag: Text): Boolean	Check if text contains fragment
split	(sep: Text): List/Text	Split text by sep into list
toLower	(): Text	Return lowercase version of text
toUpper	(): Text	Return uppercase version of text
trim	(): Text	Return trimmed version of text
match	(regex: Text): Boolean	Return text is match for regex

_ <- fat.type.Text
x = 'banana'
x.size                       # yields 6
x.replace('nana', 'nquet');  # yields 'banquet'