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Retrieves the 16-bit code of the character at the specified index within this text.

Retrieves the 16-bit code of the character at the specified index within this text.

Compares this text to another text lexicographically, based on the Unicode value of each character in each text object.

Compares this text to another text lexicographically, based on the Unicode value of each character in each text object.

Checks if this text contains the specified substring.

Note that for all texts t, t.contains('') is true, and for all texts u and v such that u == v, u.contains(v) is true.

t.contains(u) is equivalent to t.index_of(u) >= 0.

Returns true if this text is empty, false otherwise.

x.empty() is equivalent to x.size() == 0.

Converts this text to an array of UTF-8 encoded bytes.

Checks if this text ends with the specified suffix.

Note that for all texts t, t.ends_with('') is true, and for all texts u and v such that u == v, u.ends_with(v) is true.

Checks if this text ends with the specified suffix.

Note that for all texts t, t.ends_with('') is true, and for all texts u and v such that u == v, u.ends_with(v) is true.

Uses this text as a format string and returns the text obtained by substituting the specified arguments.

Supports many of the format specifiers found in other programming languages, including:

• %s for text

• %d for integers and big_integers in decimal (base 10) representation

• %o for integers and big_integers in octal (base 8) representation

• %x for integers and big_integers in hexadecimal (base 16) representation

• %f for decimal (supports precision, e.g. %.2f for two decimal places)

• %b for booleans (output in lower-case, i.e. true and false)

• %B for booleans (output in upper-case, i.e. TRUE and FALSE)

Examples:

• 'My integer is %d.'.format(123) returns 'My integer is 123.'.

• 'See you...%10s.'.format('later') returns 'See you... later.'.

• 'Earnings: daily=%f, weekly=%f, monthly=%f.'.format(312.45, 534.78, 2199.67) returns 'Earnings: daily=312.450000, weekly=534.780000, monthly=2199.670000.'.

• ''%d %o %x'.format(14, 14, 14)' returns '14 16 e'.

If any format specifier is incompatible with the type of its corresponding argument, or if there are more specifiers requiring substitution than there are arguments, all format specifiers are left unsubstituted in the output text.

All format specifiers are also left unsubstituted in the output text when any argument is null, except when it matches the specifier is %s, in which case the text 'null' is substituted (assuming the other arguments and specifiers are correctly matched).

If there are more arguments than format specifiers, the extra arguments are ignored, but matched arguments are still substituted (assuming they match correctly).

Create a text representation of the given bytes.

By default, an exception is thrown if invalid UTF-8 characters are encountered, however if the optional parameter ignore_errors is provided as true, invalid characters are instead replaced with a placeholder.

Search for the first occurrence of the specified substring within this text.

Returns the position of the first occurrence of the specified substring within this text, starting at the specified index, or -1 if the text is not found.

Search for the first occurrence of the specified substring within this text.

Returns the position of the first occurrence of the specified substring within this text, starting at the specified index, or -1 if the text is not found.

Returns the index within this text of the last occurrence of the specified string, or -1 if not found.

Returns the index within this text of the last occurrence of the specified string, starting from the specified startIndex, or -1 if not found.

Returns the index within this text of the last occurrence of the specified string, or -1 if not found.

Returns the index within this text of the last occurrence of the specified string, starting from the specified startIndex, or -1 if not found.

Returns the number of characters in this text.

Matches this text against the specified SQL LIKE pattern.

Use '_' to match any single character, and '%' to match any sequence of zero or more characters. The escape sequences '\\_', '\\%' and '\\\\' match the literal characters '_', '%' and '\' respectively.

Examples:

val names = ["Alice", "Victor", "Viktor", "Victoria", "V\\ctor"];
print(names @* { .like("Vi_tor") });  // prints [Victor, Viktor]
print(names @* { .like("Vic%") }); // prints [Victor, Victoria]
print(names @* { .like("V\\\\c%") }); // prints [V\ctor]

Returns the text obtained by converting all alphabetic characters in this text to lower case.

Returns the text obtained by converting all alphabetic characters in this text to lower case.

Matches this text against the specified regular expression.

Regular expressions use the same syntax as java.util.regex.Pattern.

Examples:

val names = ["Alice", "Victor", "Viktor", "Victoria", "V\\ctor"];
print(names @* { .matches("Vi[a-z]tor") });  // prints [Victor, Viktor]
print(names @* { .matches("Vic.*") }); // prints [Victor, Victoria]
print(names @* { .matches("V\\\\c.*") }); // prints [V\ctor]

Repeat this text n times. SQL compatible.

Examples:

• 'abc'.repeat(3) returns 'abcabcabc'

• ''.repeat(3) returns ''

• 'abc'.repeat(0) returns ''

Returns the text obtained by replacing all occurrences of the substring old_value in this text with new_value.

Returns a reversed copy of this text. SQL compatible.

Examples:

• ''.reversed() returns ''

• 'a'.reversed() returns 'a'

• 'abc'.reversed() returns 'cba'

Returns the number of characters in this text.

Splits this text around matches of the given delimiter.

Examples:

• 'the cow jumped over the moon'.split(' ') returns ['the', 'cow', 'jumped', 'over', 'the', 'moon'].

• 'giggling'.split('g') returns ['', 'i', '', 'lin', ''].

• 'espresso'.split('a') returns ['espresso'].

Checks if this text starts with the specified prefix.

Note that for all texts t, t.starts_with('') is true, and for all texts u and v such that u == v, u.starts_with(v) is true.

Checks if this text starts with the specified prefix.

Note that for all texts t, t.starts_with('') is true, and for all texts u and v such that u == v, u.starts_with(v) is true.

Returns a substring of this text starting from the specified index (inclusive).

Returns a substring of this text from the specified start index (inclusive) to the specified end index (exclusive).

Converts this text to an array of UTF-8 encoded bytes.

Returns text matching this one, but with leading and trailing whitespace removed.

Returns the text obtained by converting all alphabetic characters in this text to upper case.

Returns the text obtained by converting all alphabetic characters in this text to upper case.