NTGML API: Strings, numbers, arrays

Prepends padstr to str until it reaches specified length.

trace(string_lpad(string(42), "0", 4)); // "0042"

Appends padstr to str until it reaches specified length.

trace(string_rpad(string(42), "0", 4)); // "4200"

Converts a number to a string with automatic precision (unlike string_format, which requires specifying the number of decimal places).

trace(string_auto(0.4)); // "0.4"
trace(string_auto(0.4040)); // "0.404"

Removes leading and trailing spaces from a string.

trace(string_trim(" hi ")); // "hi"

Same as now-built-in string_trim.

Removes leading spaces from a string.

trace(string_trim(" hi ")); // "hi "

Same as now-built-in string_trim_start.

Removes trailing spaces from a string.

trace(string_trim(" hi ")); // " hi"

Same as now-built-in string_trim_end.

Splits a string on delimiter into an list of strings.

If list is provided, clears it and adds items to it, otherwise makes a new list.

Returns the list.

If the string does not contain the delimiter, returns a 1-element array with the entire string.

var list = string_split_list("A|B|C", "|");
trace(list[|1]); // "B"

Returns a SHA-1 hash of a string, assuming Unicode encoding.

Returns a SHA-1 hash of a string, assuming UTF-8 encoding.

Returns a MD5 hash of a string, assuming Unicode encoding.

Returns a MD5 hash of a string, assuming UTF-8 encoding.