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diff --git a/doc/classes/String.xml b/doc/classes/String.xml index 7e55f8bd9a..4ee9dbf1f9 100644 --- a/doc/classes/String.xml +++ b/doc/classes/String.xml @@ -7,163 +7,26 @@ This is the built-in string class (and the one used by GDScript). It supports Unicode and provides all necessary means for string handling. Strings are reference-counted and use a copy-on-write approach, so passing them around is cheap in resources. </description> <tutorials> - <link>https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/getting_started/scripting/gdscript/gdscript_format_string.html</link> + <link title="GDScript format strings">https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/getting_started/scripting/gdscript/gdscript_format_string.html</link> </tutorials> <methods> - <method name="String"> + <method name="String" qualifiers="constructor"> <return type="String"> </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="bool"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [bool]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="int"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [int]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="float"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [float]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Vector2"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Vector2]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Vector2i"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Vector2i]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Rect2"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Rect2]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Rect2i"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Rect2i]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Vector3"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Vector3]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Vector3i"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Vector3i]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Transform2D"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Transform2D]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Plane"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Plane]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Quat"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Quat]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="AABB"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [AABB]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Basis"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Basis]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Transform"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Transform]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Color"> - </argument> <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Color]. + Constructs an empty [String] ([code]""[/code]). </description> </method> - <method name="String"> + <method name="String" qualifiers="constructor"> <return type="String"> </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="StringName"> + <argument index="0" name="from" type="String"> </argument> <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [StringName]. + Constructs a [String] as a copy of the given [String]. </description> </method> - <method name="String"> + <method name="String" qualifiers="constructor"> <return type="String"> </return> <argument index="0" name="from" type="NodePath"> @@ -172,130 +35,13 @@ Constructs a new String from the given [NodePath]. </description> </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="RID"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [RID]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Callable"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Callable]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Signal"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Signal]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Dictionary"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Dictionary]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="Array"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [Array]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="PackedByteArray"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [PackedByteArray]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="PackedInt32Array"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [PackedInt32Array]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="PackedInt64Array"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [PackedInt64Array]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="PackedFloat32Array"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [PackedFloat32Array]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="PackedFloat64Array"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [PackedFloat64Array]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="PackedStringArray"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [PackedStringArray]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="PackedVector2Array"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [PackedVector2Array]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="PackedVector3Array"> - </argument> - <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [PackedVector3Array]. - </description> - </method> - <method name="String"> + <method name="String" qualifiers="constructor"> <return type="String"> </return> - <argument index="0" name="from" type="PackedColorArray"> + <argument index="0" name="from" type="StringName"> </argument> <description> - Constructs a new String from the given [PackedColorArray]. + Constructs a new String from the given [StringName]. </description> </method> <method name="begins_with"> @@ -314,6 +60,14 @@ Returns the bigrams (pairs of consecutive letters) of this string. </description> </method> + <method name="bin_to_int"> + <return type="int"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="with_prefix" type="bool" default="true"> + </argument> + <description> + </description> + </method> <method name="c_escape"> <return type="String"> </return> @@ -342,7 +96,10 @@ <argument index="0" name="to" type="String"> </argument> <description> - Performs a case-sensitive comparison to another string. Returns [code]-1[/code] if less than, [code]+1[/code] if greater than, or [code]0[/code] if equal. + Performs a case-sensitive comparison to another string. Returns [code]-1[/code] if less than, [code]1[/code] if greater than, or [code]0[/code] if equal. "less than" or "greater than" are determined by the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters]Unicode code points[/code] of each string, which roughly matches the alphabetical order. + [b]Behavior with different string lengths:[/b] Returns [code]1[/code] if the "base" string is longer than the [code]to[/code] string or [code]-1[/code] if the "base" string is shorter than the [code]to[/code] string. Keep in mind this length is determined by the number of Unicode codepoints, [i]not[/i] the actual visible characters. + [b]Behavior with empty strings:[/b] Returns [code]-1[/code] if the "base" string is empty, [code]1[/code] if the [code]to[/code] string is empty or [code]0[/code] if both strings are empty. + To get a boolean result from a string comparison, use the [code]==[/code] operator instead. See also [method nocasecmp_to] and [method naturalnocasecmp_to]. </description> </method> <method name="count"> @@ -394,17 +151,6 @@ Returns [code]true[/code] if the string ends with the given string. </description> </method> - <method name="erase"> - <return type="void"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="position" type="int"> - </argument> - <argument index="1" name="chars" type="int"> - </argument> - <description> - Erases [code]chars[/code] characters from the string starting from [code]position[/code]. - </description> - </method> <method name="find"> <return type="int"> </return> @@ -482,10 +228,13 @@ <method name="hex_to_int"> <return type="int"> </return> + <argument index="0" name="with_prefix" type="bool" default="true"> + </argument> <description> - Converts a string containing a hexadecimal number into an integer. Hexadecimal strings are expected to be prefixed with "[code]0x[/code]" otherwise [code]0[/code] is returned. + Converts a string containing a hexadecimal number into a decimal integer. If [code]with_prefix[/code] is [code]true[/code], the hexadecimal string should start with the [code]0x[/code] prefix, otherwise [code]0[/code] is returned. [codeblock] print("0xff".hex_to_int()) # Print "255" + print("ab".hex_to_int(false)) # Print "171" [/codeblock] </description> </method> @@ -509,20 +258,6 @@ [/codeblock] </description> </method> - <method name="humanize_size"> - <return type="String"> - </return> - <argument index="0" name="size" type="int"> - </argument> - <description> - Converts [code]size[/code] represented as number of bytes to human-readable format using internationalized set of data size units, namely: B, KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB. Note that the next smallest unit is picked automatically to hold at most 1024 units. - [codeblock] - var bytes = 133790307 - var size = String.humanize_size(bytes) - print(size) # prints "127.5 MiB" - [/codeblock] - </description> - </method> <method name="insert"> <return type="String"> </return> @@ -615,7 +350,7 @@ <return type="bool"> </return> <description> - Returns [code]true[/code] if this string contains a valid IP address. + Returns [code]true[/code] if this string contains only a well-formatted IPv4 or IPv6 address. This method considers [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses]reserved IP addresses[/url] such as [code]0.0.0.0[/code] as valid. </description> </method> <method name="join"> @@ -654,6 +389,17 @@ Returns the string's amount of characters. </description> </method> + <method name="lpad"> + <return type="String"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="min_length" type="int"> + </argument> + <argument index="1" name="character" type="String" default="" ""> + </argument> + <description> + Formats a string to be at least [code]min_length[/code] long by adding [code]character[/code]s to the left of the string. + </description> + </method> <method name="lstrip"> <return type="String"> </return> @@ -695,13 +441,109 @@ Returns the MD5 hash of the string as a string. </description> </method> + <method name="naturalnocasecmp_to"> + <return type="int"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="to" type="String"> + </argument> + <description> + Performs a case-insensitive [i]natural order[/i] comparison to another string. Returns [code]-1[/code] if less than, [code]1[/code] if greater than, or [code]0[/code] if equal. "less than" or "greater than" are determined by the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters]Unicode code points[/code] of each string, which roughly matches the alphabetical order. Internally, lowercase characters will be converted to uppercase during the comparison. + When used for sorting, natural order comparison will order suites of numbers as expected by most people. If you sort the numbers from 1 to 10 using natural order, you will get [code][1, 2, 3, ...][/code] instead of [code][1, 10, 2, 3, ...][/code]. + [b]Behavior with different string lengths:[/b] Returns [code]1[/code] if the "base" string is longer than the [code]to[/code] string or [code]-1[/code] if the "base" string is shorter than the [code]to[/code] string. Keep in mind this length is determined by the number of Unicode codepoints, [i]not[/i] the actual visible characters. + [b]Behavior with empty strings:[/b] Returns [code]-1[/code] if the "base" string is empty, [code]1[/code] if the [code]to[/code] string is empty or [code]0[/code] if both strings are empty. + To get a boolean result from a string comparison, use the [code]==[/code] operator instead. See also [method nocasecmp_to] and [method casecmp_to]. + </description> + </method> <method name="nocasecmp_to"> <return type="int"> </return> <argument index="0" name="to" type="String"> </argument> <description> - Performs a case-insensitive comparison to another string. Returns [code]-1[/code] if less than, [code]+1[/code] if greater than, or [code]0[/code] if equal. + Performs a case-insensitive comparison to another string. Returns [code]-1[/code] if less than, [code]1[/code] if greater than, or [code]0[/code] if equal. "less than" or "greater than" are determined by the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters]Unicode code points[/code] of each string, which roughly matches the alphabetical order. Internally, lowercase characters will be converted to uppercase during the comparison. + [b]Behavior with different string lengths:[/b] Returns [code]1[/code] if the "base" string is longer than the [code]to[/code] string or [code]-1[/code] if the "base" string is shorter than the [code]to[/code] string. Keep in mind this length is determined by the number of Unicode codepoints, [i]not[/i] the actual visible characters. + [b]Behavior with empty strings:[/b] Returns [code]-1[/code] if the "base" string is empty, [code]1[/code] if the [code]to[/code] string is empty or [code]0[/code] if both strings are empty. + To get a boolean result from a string comparison, use the [code]==[/code] operator instead. See also [method casecmp_to] and [method naturalnocasecmp_to]. + </description> + </method> + <method name="operator !=" qualifiers="operator"> + <return type="bool"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="right" type="String"> + </argument> + <description> + </description> + </method> + <method name="operator !=" qualifiers="operator"> + <return type="bool"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="right" type="StringName"> + </argument> + <description> + </description> + </method> + <method name="operator %" qualifiers="operator"> + <return type="String"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="right" type="Variant"> + </argument> + <description> + </description> + </method> + <method name="operator +" qualifiers="operator"> + <return type="String"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="right" type="String"> + </argument> + <description> + </description> + </method> + <method name="operator <" qualifiers="operator"> + <return type="bool"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="right" type="String"> + </argument> + <description> + </description> + </method> + <method name="operator <=" qualifiers="operator"> + <return type="bool"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="right" type="String"> + </argument> + <description> + </description> + </method> + <method name="operator ==" qualifiers="operator"> + <return type="bool"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="right" type="String"> + </argument> + <description> + </description> + </method> + <method name="operator ==" qualifiers="operator"> + <return type="bool"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="right" type="StringName"> + </argument> + <description> + </description> + </method> + <method name="operator >" qualifiers="operator"> + <return type="bool"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="right" type="String"> + </argument> + <description> + </description> + </method> + <method name="operator >=" qualifiers="operator"> + <return type="bool"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="right" type="String"> + </argument> + <description> </description> </method> <method name="ord_at"> @@ -816,6 +658,17 @@ Returns the right side of the string from a given position. </description> </method> + <method name="rpad"> + <return type="String"> + </return> + <argument index="0" name="min_length" type="int"> + </argument> + <argument index="1" name="character" type="String" default="" ""> + </argument> + <description> + Formats a string to be at least [code]min_length[/code] long by adding [code]character[/code]s to the right of the string. + </description> + </method> <method name="rsplit"> <return type="PackedStringArray"> </return> @@ -895,8 +748,8 @@ <argument index="2" name="maxsplit" type="int" default="0"> </argument> <description> - Splits the string by a [code]delimiter[/code] string and returns an array of the substrings. - If [code]maxsplit[/code] is specified, it defines the number of splits to do from the left up to [code]maxsplit[/code]. The default value of 0 means that all items are split. + Splits the string by a [code]delimiter[/code] string and returns an array of the substrings. The [code]delimiter[/code] can be of any length. + If [code]maxsplit[/code] is specified, it defines the number of splits to do from the left up to [code]maxsplit[/code]. The default value of [code]0[/code] means that all items are split. Example: [codeblock] var some_string = "One,Two,Three,Four" @@ -905,6 +758,7 @@ print(some_array[0]) # Prints "One" print(some_array[1]) # Prints "Two,Three,Four" [/codeblock] + If you need to split strings with more complex rules, use the [RegEx] class instead. </description> </method> <method name="split_floats"> @@ -948,11 +802,11 @@ Returns part of the string from the position [code]from[/code] with length [code]len[/code]. Argument [code]len[/code] is optional and using [code]-1[/code] will return remaining characters from given position. </description> </method> - <method name="to_ascii"> + <method name="to_ascii_buffer"> <return type="PackedByteArray"> </return> <description> - Converts the String (which is a character array) to [PackedByteArray] (which is an array of bytes). The conversion is faster compared to [method to_utf8], as this method assumes that all the characters in the String are ASCII characters. + Converts the String (which is a character array) to ASCII/Latin-1 encoded [PackedByteArray] (which is an array of bytes). The conversion is faster compared to [method to_utf8_buffer], as this method assumes that all the characters in the String are ASCII/Latin-1 characters, unsupported characters are replaced with spaces. </description> </method> <method name="to_float"> @@ -983,11 +837,25 @@ Returns the string converted to uppercase. </description> </method> - <method name="to_utf8"> + <method name="to_utf16_buffer"> + <return type="PackedByteArray"> + </return> + <description> + Converts the String (which is an array of characters) to UTF-16 encoded [PackedByteArray] (which is an array of bytes). + </description> + </method> + <method name="to_utf32_buffer"> <return type="PackedByteArray"> </return> <description> - Converts the String (which is an array of characters) to [PackedByteArray] (which is an array of bytes). The conversion is a bit slower than [method to_ascii], but supports all UTF-8 characters. Therefore, you should prefer this function over [method to_ascii]. + Converts the String (which is an array of characters) to UTF-32 encoded [PackedByteArray] (which is an array of bytes). + </description> + </method> + <method name="to_utf8_buffer"> + <return type="PackedByteArray"> + </return> + <description> + Converts the String (which is an array of characters) to UTF-8 encode [PackedByteArray] (which is an array of bytes). The conversion is a bit slower than [method to_ascii_buffer], but supports all UTF-8 characters. Therefore, you should prefer this function over [method to_ascii_buffer]. </description> </method> <method name="trim_prefix"> @@ -1011,8 +879,10 @@ <method name="xml_escape"> <return type="String"> </return> + <argument index="0" name="escape_quotes" type="bool" default="false"> + </argument> <description> - Returns a copy of the string with special characters escaped using the XML standard. + Returns a copy of the string with special characters escaped using the XML standard. If [code]escape_quotes[/code] is [code]true[/code], the single quote ([code]'[/code]) and double quote ([code]"[/code]) characters are also escaped. </description> </method> <method name="xml_unescape"> |