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diff --git a/doc/classes/String.xml b/doc/classes/String.xml
index 536165487d..ff0572f384 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" category="Built-In Types" version="3.1">
+<class name="String" category="Built-In Types" version="3.2">
<brief_description>
Built-in string class.
</brief_description>
@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@
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>
</tutorials>
- <demos>
- </demos>
<methods>
<method name="String">
<return type="String">
@@ -432,6 +431,14 @@
Returns [code]true[/code] if this string is a subsequence of the given string, without considering case.
</description>
</method>
+ <method name="is_valid_filename">
+ <return type="bool">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Returns [code]true[/code] if this string is free from characters that aren't allowed in file names, those being:
+ [code]: / \ ? * " | % &lt; &gt;[/code]
+ </description>
+ </method>
<method name="is_valid_float">
<return type="bool">
</return>
@@ -439,6 +446,15 @@
Returns [code]true[/code] if this string contains a valid float.
</description>
</method>
+ <method name="is_valid_hex_number">
+ <return type="bool">
+ </return>
+ <argument index="0" name="with_prefix" type="bool" default="False">
+ </argument>
+ <description>
+ Returns [code]true[/code] if this string contains a valid hexadecimal number. If [code]with_prefix[/code] is [code]true[/code], then a validity of the hexadecimal number is determined by [code]0x[/code] prefix, for instance: [code]0xDEADC0DE[/code].
+ </description>
+ </method>
<method name="is_valid_html_color">
<return type="bool">
</return>
@@ -450,7 +466,7 @@
<return type="bool">
</return>
<description>
- Returns [code]true[/code] if this string is a valid identifier. A valid identifier may contain only letters, digits and underscores (_) and the first character may not be a digit.
+ Returns [code]true[/code] if this string is a valid identifier. A valid identifier may contain only letters, digits and underscores ([code]_[/code]) and the first character may not be a digit.
</description>
</method>
<method name="is_valid_integer">
@@ -505,7 +521,7 @@
<argument index="0" name="expr" type="String">
</argument>
<description>
- Does a simple expression match, where '*' matches zero or more arbitrary characters and '?' matches any single character except '.'.
+ Does a simple expression match, where [code]*[/code] matches zero or more arbitrary characters and [code]?[/code] matches any single character except '.'.
</description>
</method>
<method name="matchn">
@@ -514,7 +530,7 @@
<argument index="0" name="expr" type="String">
</argument>
<description>
- Does a simple case insensitive expression match, using ? and * wildcards (see [method match]).
+ Does a simple case insensitive expression match, using [code]?[/code] and [code]*[/code] wildcards (see [method match]).
</description>
</method>
<method name="md5_buffer">
@@ -646,16 +662,17 @@
<method name="rsplit">
<return type="PoolStringArray">
</return>
- <argument index="0" name="divisor" type="String">
+ <argument index="0" name="delimiter" type="String">
</argument>
<argument index="1" name="allow_empty" type="bool" default="True">
</argument>
<argument index="2" name="maxsplit" type="int" default="0">
</argument>
<description>
- Splits the string by a [code]divisor[/code] string and returns an array of the substrings, starting from right.
- [b]Example:[/b] "One,Two,Three" will return ["One","Two","Three"] if split by ",".
- If [code]maxsplit[/code] is specified, then it is number of splits to do, default is 0 which splits all the items.
+ Splits the string by a [code]delimiter[/code] string and returns an array of the substrings, starting from right.
+ The splits in the returned array are sorted in the same order as the original string, from left to right.
+ If [code]maxsplit[/code] is specified, it defines the number of splits to do from the right up to [code]maxsplit[/code]. The default value of 0 means that all items are split, thus giving the same result as [method split].
+ [b]Example:[/b] [code]"One,Two,Three,Four"[/code] will return [code]["Three","Four"][/code] if split by [code]","[/code] with [code]maxsplit[/code] of 2.
</description>
</method>
<method name="rstrip">
@@ -693,28 +710,28 @@
<method name="split">
<return type="PoolStringArray">
</return>
- <argument index="0" name="divisor" type="String">
+ <argument index="0" name="delimiter" type="String">
</argument>
<argument index="1" name="allow_empty" type="bool" default="True">
</argument>
<argument index="2" name="maxsplit" type="int" default="0">
</argument>
<description>
- Splits the string by a divisor string and returns an array of the substrings.
- [b]Example:[/b] "One,Two,Three" will return ["One","Two","Three"] if split by ",".
- If [code]maxsplit[/code] is given, at most maxsplit number of splits occur, and the remainder of the string is returned as the final element of the list (thus, the list will have at most maxsplit+1 elements)
+ 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.
+ [b]Example:[/b] [code]"One,Two,Three"[/code] will return [code]["One","Two"][/code] if split by [code]","[/code] with [code]maxsplit[/code] of 2.
</description>
</method>
<method name="split_floats">
<return type="PoolRealArray">
</return>
- <argument index="0" name="divisor" type="String">
+ <argument index="0" name="delimiter" type="String">
</argument>
<argument index="1" name="allow_empty" type="bool" default="True">
</argument>
<description>
- Splits the string in floats by using a divisor string and returns an array of the substrings.
- [b]Example:[/b] "1,2.5,3" will return [1,2.5,3] if split by ",".
+ Splits the string in floats by using a delimiter string and returns an array of the substrings.
+ [b]Example:[/b] [code]"1,2.5,3"[/code] will return [code][1,2.5,3][/code] if split by [code]","[/code].
</description>
</method>
<method name="strip_edges">
@@ -725,7 +742,14 @@
<argument index="1" name="right" type="bool" default="True">
</argument>
<description>
- Returns a copy of the string stripped of any non-printable character at the beginning and the end. The optional arguments are used to toggle stripping on the left and right edges respectively.
+ Returns a copy of the string stripped of any non-printable character (including tabulations, spaces and line breaks) at the beginning and the end. The optional arguments are used to toggle stripping on the left and right edges respectively.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="strip_escapes">
+ <return type="String">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Returns a copy of the string stripped of any escape character. These include all non-printable control characters of the first page of the ASCII table (&lt; 32), such as tabulation ([code]\t[/code] in C) and newline ([code]\n[/code] and [code]\r[/code]) characters, but not spaces.
</description>
</method>
<method name="substr">
@@ -733,17 +757,17 @@
</return>
<argument index="0" name="from" type="int">
</argument>
- <argument index="1" name="len" type="int">
+ <argument index="1" name="len" type="int" default="-1">
</argument>
<description>
- Returns part of the string from the position [code]from[/code] with length [code]len[/code].
+ Returns part of the string from the position [code]from[/code] with length [code]len[/code]. Argument [code]len[/code] is optional and using -1 will return remaining characters from given position.
</description>
</method>
<method name="to_ascii">
<return type="PoolByteArray">
</return>
<description>
- Converts the String (which is a character array) to [PoolByteArray] (which is an array of bytes). The conversion is sped up in comparison to to_utf8() with the assumption that all the characters the String contains are only ASCII characters.
+ Converts the String (which is a character array) to [PoolByteArray] (which is an array of bytes). The conversion is sped up in comparison to [method to_utf8] with the assumption that all the characters the String contains are only ASCII characters.
</description>
</method>
<method name="to_float">
@@ -778,7 +802,7 @@
<return type="PoolByteArray">
</return>
<description>
- Converts the String (which is an array of characters) to [PoolByteArray] (which is an array of bytes). The conversion is a bit slower than to_ascii(), but supports all UTF-8 characters. Therefore, you should prefer this function over to_ascii().
+ Converts the String (which is an array of characters) to [PoolByteArray] (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].
</description>
</method>
<method name="trim_prefix">