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diff --git a/doc/classes/String.xml b/doc/classes/String.xml
index eeb17c24c0..5f133169f2 100644
--- a/doc/classes/String.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/String.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<class name="String" version="4.0">
+<class name="String" version="4.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../class.xsd">
<brief_description>
Built-in string class.
</brief_description>
@@ -222,10 +222,27 @@
[/codeblock]
</description>
</method>
+ <method name="get_slice_count" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="int" />
+ <argument index="0" name="delimiter" type="String" />
+ <description>
+ Splits a string using a [code]delimiter[/code] and returns a number of slices.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="get_slicec" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="String" />
+ <argument index="0" name="delimiter" type="int" />
+ <argument index="1" name="slice" type="int" />
+ <description>
+ Splits a string using a Unicode character with code [code]delimiter[/code] and returns a substring at index [code]slice[/code]. Returns an empty string if the index doesn't exist.
+ This is a more performant alternative to [method split] for cases when you need only one element from the array at a fixed index.
+ </description>
+ </method>
<method name="hash" qualifiers="const">
<return type="int" />
<description>
- Hashes the string and returns a 32-bit integer.
+ Returns the 32-bit hash value representing the string's contents.
+ [b]Note:[/b] [String]s with equal content will always produce identical hash values. However, the reverse is not true. Returning identical hash values does [i]not[/i] imply the strings are equal, because different strings can have identical hash values due to hash collisions.
</description>
</method>
<method name="hex_to_int" qualifiers="const">
@@ -248,6 +265,8 @@
<return type="String" />
<argument index="0" name="size" type="int" />
<description>
+ Converts an integer representing a number of bytes into a human-readable form.
+ Note that this output is in [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_prefixes]IEC prefix format[/url], and includes [code]B[/code], [code]KiB[/code], [code]MiB[/code], [code]GiB[/code], [code]TiB[/code], [code]PiB[/code], and [code]EiB[/code].
</description>
</method>
<method name="indent" qualifiers="const">
@@ -403,14 +422,14 @@
<return type="bool" />
<argument index="0" name="expr" type="String" />
<description>
- Does a simple case-sensitive expression match, where [code]"*"[/code] matches zero or more arbitrary characters and [code]"?"[/code] matches any single character except a period ([code]"."[/code]).
+ Does a simple case-sensitive expression match, where [code]"*"[/code] matches zero or more arbitrary characters and [code]"?"[/code] matches any single character except a period ([code]"."[/code]). An empty string or empty expression always evaluates to [code]false[/code].
</description>
</method>
<method name="matchn" qualifiers="const">
<return type="bool" />
<argument index="0" name="expr" type="String" />
<description>
- Does a simple case-insensitive expression match, where [code]"*"[/code] matches zero or more arbitrary characters and [code]"?"[/code] matches any single character except a period ([code]"."[/code]).
+ Does a simple case-insensitive expression match, where [code]"*"[/code] matches zero or more arbitrary characters and [code]"?"[/code] matches any single character except a period ([code]"."[/code]). An empty string or empty expression always evaluates to [code]false[/code].
</description>
</method>
<method name="md5_buffer" qualifiers="const">