String¶

Built-in string class.

Description¶

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.

Methods¶

String

String ( bool from )

String

String ( int from )

String

String ( float from )

String

String ( Vector2 from )

String

String ( Vector2i from )

String

String ( Rect2 from )

String

String ( Rect2i from )

String

String ( Vector3 from )

String

String ( Vector3i from )

String

String ( Transform2D from )

String

String ( Plane from )

String

String ( Quat from )

String

String ( AABB from )

String

String ( Basis from )

String

String ( Transform from )

String

String ( Color from )

String

String ( StringName from )

String

String ( NodePath from )

String

String ( RID from )

String

String ( Callable from )

String

String ( Signal from )

String

String ( Dictionary from )

String

String ( Array from )

String

String ( PackedByteArray from )

String

String ( PackedInt32Array from )

String

String ( PackedInt64Array from )

String

String ( PackedFloat32Array from )

String

String ( PackedFloat64Array from )

String

String ( PackedStringArray from )

String

String ( PackedVector2Array from )

String

String ( PackedVector3Array from )

String

String ( PackedColorArray from )

bool

begins_with ( String text )

PackedStringArray

bigrams ( )

String

c_escape ( )

String

c_unescape ( )

String

capitalize ( )

int

casecmp_to ( String to )

int

count ( String what, int from=0, int to=0 )

int

countn ( String what, int from=0, int to=0 )

String

dedent ( )

bool

empty ( )

bool

ends_with ( String text )

void

erase ( int position, int chars )

int

find ( String what, int from=0 )

int

find_last ( String what )

int

findn ( String what, int from=0 )

String

format ( Variant values, String placeholder="{_}" )

String

get_base_dir ( )

String

get_basename ( )

String

get_extension ( )

String

get_file ( )

int

hash ( )

int

hex_to_int ( )

String

http_escape ( )

String

http_unescape ( )

String

humanize_size ( int size )

String

insert ( int position, String what )

bool

is_abs_path ( )

bool

is_rel_path ( )

bool

is_subsequence_of ( String text )

bool

is_subsequence_ofi ( String text )

bool

is_valid_filename ( )

bool

is_valid_float ( )

bool

is_valid_hex_number ( bool with_prefix=false )

bool

is_valid_html_color ( )

bool

is_valid_identifier ( )

bool

is_valid_integer ( )

bool

is_valid_ip_address ( )

String

json_escape ( )

String

left ( int position )

int

length ( )

String

lstrip ( String chars )

bool

match ( String expr )

bool

matchn ( String expr )

PackedByteArray

md5_buffer ( )

String

md5_text ( )

int

nocasecmp_to ( String to )

int

ord_at ( int at )

String

pad_decimals ( int digits )

String

pad_zeros ( int digits )

String

percent_decode ( )

String

percent_encode ( )

String

plus_file ( String file )

String

repeat ( int count )

String

replace ( String what, String forwhat )

String

replacen ( String what, String forwhat )

int

rfind ( String what, int from=-1 )

int

rfindn ( String what, int from=-1 )

String

right ( int position )

PackedStringArray

rsplit ( String delimiter, bool allow_empty=true, int maxsplit=0 )

String

rstrip ( String chars )

PackedByteArray

sha1_buffer ( )

String

sha1_text ( )

PackedByteArray

sha256_buffer ( )

String

sha256_text ( )

float

similarity ( String text )

PackedStringArray

split ( String delimiter, bool allow_empty=true, int maxsplit=0 )

PackedFloat32Array

split_floats ( String delimiter, bool allow_empty=true )

String

strip_edges ( bool left=true, bool right=true )

String

strip_escapes ( )

String

substr ( int from, int len=-1 )

PackedByteArray

to_ascii ( )

float

to_float ( )

int

to_int ( )

String

to_lower ( )

String

to_upper ( )

PackedByteArray

to_utf8 ( )

String

trim_prefix ( String prefix )

String

trim_suffix ( String suffix )

String

xml_escape ( )

String

xml_unescape ( )

Method Descriptions¶

Constructs a new String from the given bool.

Constructs a new String from the given int.

Constructs a new String from the given float.

Constructs a new String from the given Vector2.

Constructs a new String from the given Vector2i.

Constructs a new String from the given Rect2.

Constructs a new String from the given Rect2i.

Constructs a new String from the given Vector3.

Constructs a new String from the given Vector3i.

Constructs a new String from the given Transform2D.

Constructs a new String from the given Plane.

Constructs a new String from the given Quat.

Constructs a new String from the given AABB.

Constructs a new String from the given Basis.

Constructs a new String from the given Transform.

Constructs a new String from the given Color.

Constructs a new String from the given StringName.

Constructs a new String from the given NodePath.

Constructs a new String from the given RID.

Constructs a new String from the given Callable.

Constructs a new String from the given Signal.

Constructs a new String from the given Dictionary.

Constructs a new String from the given Array.

Constructs a new String from the given PackedByteArray.

Constructs a new String from the given PackedInt32Array.

Constructs a new String from the given PackedInt64Array.

Constructs a new String from the given PackedFloat32Array.

Constructs a new String from the given PackedFloat64Array.

Constructs a new String from the given PackedStringArray.

Constructs a new String from the given PackedVector2Array.

Constructs a new String from the given PackedVector3Array.

Constructs a new String from the given PackedColorArray.

Returns true if the string begins with the given string.

Returns the bigrams (pairs of consecutive letters) of this string.

Returns a copy of the string with special characters escaped using the C language standard.

Returns a copy of the string with escaped characters replaced by their meanings according to the C language standard.

Changes the case of some letters. Replaces underscores with spaces, converts all letters to lowercase, then capitalizes first and every letter following the space character. For capitalize camelCase mixed_with_underscores, it will return Capitalize Camelcase Mixed With Underscores.

Performs a case-sensitive comparison to another string. Returns -1 if less than, +1 if greater than, or 0 if equal.

Returns the number of occurrences of substring what between from and to positions. If from and to equals 0 the whole string will be used. If only to equals 0 the remained substring will be used.

Returns the number of occurrences of substring what (ignoring case) between from and to positions. If from and to equals 0 the whole string will be used. If only to equals 0 the remained substring will be used.

Returns a copy of the string with indentation (leading tabs and spaces) removed.

Returns true if the string is empty.

Returns true if the string ends with the given string.

  • void erase ( int position, int chars )

Erases chars characters from the string starting from position.

Finds the first occurrence of a substring. Returns the starting position of the substring or -1 if not found. Optionally, the initial search index can be passed.

Finds the last occurrence of a substring. Returns the starting position of the substring or -1 if not found.

Finds the first occurrence of a substring, ignoring case. Returns the starting position of the substring or -1 if not found. Optionally, the initial search index can be passed.

Formats the string by replacing all occurrences of placeholder with values.

If the string is a valid file path, returns the base directory name.

If the string is a valid file path, returns the full file path without the extension.

If the string is a valid file path, returns the extension.

If the string is a valid file path, returns the filename.

Hashes the string and returns a 32-bit integer.

  • int hex_to_int ( )

Converts a string containing a hexadecimal number into an integer. Hexadecimal strings are expected to be prefixed with "0x" otherwise 0 is returned.

print("0xff".hex_to_int()) # Print "255"

Escapes (encodes) a string to URL friendly format. Also referred to as 'URL encode'.

print("https://example.org/?escaped=" + "Godot Engine:'docs'".http_escape())

Unescapes (decodes) a string in URL encoded format. Also referred to as 'URL decode'.

print("https://example.org/?escaped=" + "Godot%20Engine%3A%27docs%27".http_unescape())

Converts size 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.

var bytes = 133790307
var size = String.humanize_size(bytes)
print(size) # prints "127.5 MiB"

Returns a copy of the string with the substring what inserted at the given position.

  • bool is_abs_path ( )

If the string is a path to a file or directory, returns true if the path is absolute.

  • bool is_rel_path ( )

If the string is a path to a file or directory, returns true if the path is relative.

Returns true if this string is a subsequence of the given string.

Returns true if this string is a subsequence of the given string, without considering case.

  • bool is_valid_filename ( )

Returns true if this string is free from characters that aren't allowed in file names, those being:

: / \ ? * " | % < >

  • bool is_valid_float ( )

Returns true if this string contains a valid float.

  • bool is_valid_hex_number ( bool with_prefix=false )

Returns true if this string contains a valid hexadecimal number. If with_prefix is true, then a validity of the hexadecimal number is determined by 0x prefix, for instance: 0xDEADC0DE.

  • bool is_valid_html_color ( )

Returns true if this string contains a valid color in hexadecimal HTML notation. Other HTML notations such as named colors or hsl() colors aren't considered valid by this method and will return false.

  • bool is_valid_identifier ( )

Returns true 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.

  • bool is_valid_integer ( )

Returns true if this string contains a valid integer.

  • bool is_valid_ip_address ( )

Returns true if this string contains a valid IP address.

Returns a copy of the string with special characters escaped using the JSON standard.

Returns a number of characters from the left of the string.

  • int length ( )

Returns the string's amount of characters.

Returns a copy of the string with characters removed from the left.

Does a simple case-sensitive expression match, where "*" matches zero or more arbitrary characters and "?" matches any single character except a period (".").

Does a simple case-insensitive expression match, where "*" matches zero or more arbitrary characters and "?" matches any single character except a period (".").

Returns the MD5 hash of the string as an array of bytes.

Returns the MD5 hash of the string as a string.

Performs a case-insensitive comparison to another string. Returns -1 if less than, +1 if greater than, or 0 if equal.

Returns the character code at position at.

Formats a number to have an exact number of digits after the decimal point.

Formats a number to have an exact number of digits before the decimal point.

Decode a percent-encoded string. See percent_encode.

Percent-encodes a string. Encodes parameters in a URL when sending a HTTP GET request (and bodies of form-urlencoded POST requests).

If the string is a path, this concatenates file at the end of the string as a subpath. E.g. "this/is".plus_file("path") == "this/is/path".

Returns original string repeated a number of times. The number of repetitions is given by the argument.

Replaces occurrences of a case-sensitive substring with the given one inside the string.

Replaces occurrences of a case-insensitive substring with the given one inside the string.

Performs a case-sensitive search for a substring, but starts from the end of the string instead of the beginning.

Performs a case-insensitive search for a substring, but starts from the end of the string instead of the beginning.

Returns the right side of the string from a given position.

Splits the string by a delimiter 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 maxsplit is specified, it defines the number of splits to do from the right up to maxsplit. The default value of 0 means that all items are split, thus giving the same result as split.

Example:

var some_string = "One,Two,Three,Four"
var some_array = some_string.rsplit(",", true, 1)
print(some_array.size()) # Prints 2
print(some_array[0]) # Prints "Four"
print(some_array[1]) # Prints "Three,Two,One"

Returns a copy of the string with characters removed from the right.

Returns the SHA-1 hash of the string as an array of bytes.

Returns the SHA-1 hash of the string as a string.

Returns the SHA-256 hash of the string as an array of bytes.

Returns the SHA-256 hash of the string as a string.

Returns the similarity index of the text compared to this string. 1 means totally similar and 0 means totally dissimilar.

Splits the string by a delimiter string and returns an array of the substrings.

If maxsplit is specified, it defines the number of splits to do from the left up to maxsplit. The default value of 0 means that all items are split.

Example:

var some_string = "One,Two,Three,Four"
var some_array = some_string.split(",", true, 1)
print(some_array.size()) # Prints 2
print(some_array[0]) # Prints "One"
print(some_array[1]) # Prints "Two,Three,Four"

Splits the string in floats by using a delimiter string and returns an array of the substrings.

For example, "1,2.5,3" will return [1,2.5,3] if split by ",".

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.

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 (< 32), such as tabulation (\t in C) and newline (\n and \r) characters, but not spaces.

Returns part of the string from the position from with length len. Argument len is optional and using -1 will return remaining characters from given position.

Converts the String (which is a character array) to PackedByteArray (which is an array of bytes). The conversion is faster compared to to_utf8, as this method assumes that all the characters in the String are ASCII characters.

Converts a string containing a decimal number into a float.

  • int to_int ( )

Converts a string containing an integer number into an int.

Returns the string converted to lowercase.

Returns the string converted to uppercase.

Converts the String (which is an array of characters) to PackedByteArray (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.

Removes a given string from the start if it starts with it or leaves the string unchanged.

Removes a given string from the end if it ends with it or leaves the string unchanged.

Returns a copy of the string with special characters escaped using the XML standard.

Returns a copy of the string with escaped characters replaced by their meanings according to the XML standard.