String Functions

• [String] Alteryx
• [Strings] SDU
• String Functions SQL Server

"STRING CONVERSION"

Matrix of Formats

• Html to Text

• XML to JSON

• JSON to CSV

• CSV to Markdown

• Markdown to Html

• Text to XML

• "Higher Level" formats (less consistent)

• PDF

• Word

• Excel

• Index

• Tuple

• SQL Table Row

• Python

• PREDICATES --

• FORMATTERS --

• AGGREGATES --

• CONVERSIONS

• encoders

• decoders

Casing

• CamelCase - Converts a string to camelCase

• CobolCase - Converts a string to COBOL-CASE

• KebabCase - Converts a string to kebab-case

• Lower

  • ToLower -
  • LowerCase(x)
  • LCase(x)

• PascalCase - Converts a string to PascalCase

• ProperCase - Converts a string to Proper Case

• ScreamingSnakeCase - Converts a string to SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE

• SentenceCase - Converts a string to "Sentence case." --via-minima.

• SeparateByCase - Inserts spaces in Pascal-cased or camel-cased strings

• SnakeCase - Converts a string to snake_case

• SingleSpaceWords - Trims a string and replaces multiple spaces with single spaces

• SpongeBobSnakeCase - Converts a string to sPoNgEbOb_sNaKeCaSe

• TitleCase(x)

• TitleCase - Converts a string to Title Case

• TrainCase - Converts a string to Train-Case

• UPPER Converts a string to upper-case

• Uppercase(x) Converts a string to upper case

• capitalize() Converts the first character to upper case

• casefold() Converts string into lower case

Spacing and Alignment

• center() Returns a centered string

• expandtabs() Sets the tab size of the string

• SingleSpaceWords - Trims a string and replaces multiple spaces with single spaces

  • see also: SeparateByCase - Inserts spaces in Pascal-cased or camel-cased strings

• CanonicalizeString() - Commonly based on -- slugify

  • see also: CanonicalizeDateTime

Predicates

• Contains(String, Target, CaseInsensitive=1)

• endswith() Returns true if the string ends with the specified value

• EndsWith(String, Target, CaseInsensitive=1)

• StartsWith(String, Target, CaseInsensitive=1)

Search and Measure

• find() Searches the string for a specified value and returns the position of where it was found
• count() Returns the number of times a specified value occurs in a string
• glyphwidth()
• MeasureText() -- Determines the expected display width in, characters, of a sequence of utf8 bytes.
• substring()
  • previously: mid()
• left()
• right()
• "throw / catch" (previously "onError goto")

Strippers

• SLUGGIFY is like this -- it's a mapping to a smaller but still big enough map.

• AlphabeticOnly - Removes any non-alphabetic characters from a string

• AlphanumericOnly - Removes any non-alphanumeric characters from a string

• AsciiOnly - Removes non-ASCII characters from a string

• Strip

Lookups

• ASCII Returns the ASCII value for the specific character

• CHAR Returns the character based on the ASCII code

• CHARINDEX Returns the position of a substring in a string

• Concat with + Adds two or more strings together

• CONCAT_WS Adds two or more strings together with a separator

• CONCAT Adds two or more strings together

• CountWords(String)

• CountWords - Counts the number of words in a string

• DATALENGTH Returns the number of bytes used to represent an expression

• DecomposeUnicodeForMatch(String)

• DIFFERENCE Compares two SOUNDEX values, and returns an integer value

• DigitsOnly - Removes non-digit characters from a string

• ExtractToken - Extracts a specific token number from a delimited string like a CSV or TSV

• ExtractTrigrams - Extracts trigrams (segments of up to 3 characters) from a string for fast searching

• ExtractTrimmedWords - Extracts words from a string and trims them

• FindString(String,Target)

• FORMAT Formats a value with the specified format

• GetWord(String, n)

• InitialsFromName - Extracts a person's initials from their name

• InvertString - Returns an upside down version of the string

• Left(x, len)

• LEFT Extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from left)

• LeftPad - Left pads a string

• LEN Returns the length of a string

• Length(x)

• LOWER Converts a string to lower-case

• LowerCase(x)

• LTRIM Removes leading spaces from a string

• MD5_ASCII(String)

• MD5_UNICODE(String)

• NCHAR Returns the Unicode character based on the number code

• NullIfBlank - Returns NULL if a string is blank or trims the string

• PadLeft (str, len, char)

• PadRight (str, len, char)

• PATINDEX Returns the position of a pattern in a string

• PercentEncode - Encodes reserved characters that are used in HTML or URL encoding

• PreviousNonWhitespaceCharacter - Finds the previous non-whitespace character working backwards from the current position

• QUOTENAME Returns a Unicode string with delimiters added to make the string a valid SQL Server delimited identifier

• QuoteString - Quotes a string

• REGEX_CountMatches(string,pattern,icase)

• REGEX_Match(string,pattern,icase)

• REGEX_Replace(string, pattern, replace,icase)

• Replace(Str, Target, Replacement)

• REPLACE Replaces all occurrences of a substring within a string, with a new substring

• ReplaceChar(x, y, z)

• ReplaceFirst(Str, Target, Replacement)

• REPLICATE Repeats a string a specified number of times

• REVERSE Reverses a string and returns the result

• ReverseString(Str)

• Right(String, len)

• RIGHT Extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from right)

• RightPad - Right pads a string

• RTRIM Removes trailing spaces from a string

• SOUNDEX Returns a four-character code to evaluate the similarity of two strings

• SPACE Returns a string of the specified number of space characters

• SplitDelimitedString - Splits a delimited string (often CSV or TSV)

• SplitDelimitedStringIntoColumns - Splits a delimited string (often CSV or TSV) into separate columns

• STR Returns a number as string

• STRCSPN(x, y)

• StringLength - Returns the length of a string (Properly)

• StripDiacritics - Strips diacritics (accents, graves, etc.) from a string

• StripQuotes(x)

• STRSPN(x, y)

• STUFF Deletes a part of a string and then inserts another part into the string, starting at a specified position

• Substring(x, start, length)

• SUBSTRING Extracts some characters from a string

• TRANSLATE Returns the string from the first argument after the characters specified in the second argument are translated into the characters specified in the third argument.

• Translate - Replaces a set of characters in a string

• Trim(x, y)

• TRIM Removes leading and trailing spaces (or other specified characters) from a string

• TrimLeft(x, y)

• TrimRight(x, y)

• TrimWhitespace - Removes any leading or trailing space, tab, carriage return, and linefeed characters

• UNICODE Returns the Unicode value for the first character of the input expression

• UuidCreate()

• XMLDecodeString - XML decodes a string

• XMLEncodeString - XML encodes a string