Manipulate some text

With the 'Manipulate some text' block you are able to provide a text and perform text operations like getting the length of the text, trimming text or checking if the text starts or ends with another string.

Text

The text to perform manipulations on. All Variables can be used in this field.

Text Operation

The type of text manipulation to perform on the provided Text string. There are several operations to choose from. Below you can find detailed information about each operation and how it can be used.

You can see a list of string methods in the action, or view more detailed descriptions.

Operation

Information

Get Length

Returns the number of characters in the string.

Character At

Returns the character at the position of the specified index in the string.

Index Of

Returns the index position of the first appearance of a specified query in the string.

Last Index Of

Returns the index position of the last appearance of a specified query in the string.

Get Length

The Get Length operation allows you to return the number of characters of the text provided.

Examples

Text

Result

Hello World!

BotGhost

Character At

The Character At operation returns the character at the specified index.

Index

The position of the character in the string that you'd like to return. Indexes start at 0. All Variables can be used in this input.

Examples

Text

Index

Result

Hello World!

H

Hello World!

e

Hello World!

o

BotGhost

h

Index Of

The Index Of operation returns the index of the first character of the given portion of text. If there are multiple matches, the first match is returned. If there are no matches, -1 is returned.

Search

The text to find the index of. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used in this input.

Examples

Text

Result

Hello World!

e

Hello World!

World

Hello World!

BotGhost

-1

yes, goodbye

ye

Last Index Of

The Last Index Of operation returns the index of the first character of the given portion of text. If there are multiple matches, the last match is returned. If there are no matches, -1 is returned.

Search

The text to find the last index of. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used in this input.

Examples

Text

Result

Hello World!

o

Hello World!

Hello

Hello World!

BotGhost

-1

BotGhost is cool, isn't it?

is

Operation

Information

Substring

Returns an extracted portion of text.

Slice

Returns an extracted portion of text.

Substring

The Substring operation allows you to extract text between the start and end indexes. It works similarly to the Slice operation. You can learn more about the differences between the Slice and Substring operations here.

Start Index and End Index

The character index to start extraction from and the character index to end extraction at. The end index represents the index of the first character that should not be included. Indexes start at 0. All variables can be used in this input.

Examples

Text

Start Index

End Index

Result

Hello World

Hello W

Hello World

World

BotGhost

host

Slice

The Slice operation allows you to extract text between the start and end indexes. It works similarly to the Substring operation. You can learn more about the differences between the Slice and Substring operations here.

Start Index and End Index

Examples

Text

Start Index

End Index

Result

Hello World!

Hello W

Hello World!

World

BotGhost

host

Operation

Information

To Uppercase

Returns the text with all letter characters displaying in uppercase.

To Lowercase

Returns the text with all letter characters displaying in lowercase.

Trim

Returns the text with no space characters ( ) at the start or end of the string.

To Uppercase

The To Uppercase operation converts the provided text to uppercase.

Examples

Text

Result

Hello World

HELLO WORLD

HELLO WORLD!

botghost

BOTGHOST

To Lowercase

The To Lowercase operation converts the provided text to lowercase.

Examples

Text

Result

Hello World

hello world

HELLO WORLD!

hello world!

botghost

Trim

The trim operation allows you to remove whitespaces from the start and end of the provided text.

Examples

Text

Result

Hello World

BotGhost

Operation

Information

Includes

Returns true or false based on if the text includes a string.

Starts With

Returns true or false based on if the text starts with a string.

Ends With

Returns true or false based on if the text ends with a string.

Match

Returns matches based on regular expressions.

Returns indexes based on regular expressions.

Includes

The Includes operation checks if your string contains a specific portion of text. It returns true when it does, and false when it doesn't. You can alternatively use the contains comparison type in the Comparison Condition block.

Search

The text that is compared to the original string. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used in this input.

Examples

Text

Result

Hello World

World

true

Hello World

lo Wor

true

Hello World

o

true

Hello World

BotGhost

false

Starts With

The Starts With operation checks if your string starts with a specific portion of text. It returns true when it does, and false when it doesn't. You can alternatively use the starts with comparison type in the Comparison Condition block.

Search

The text that is compared at the start of the original string. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used in this input.

Examples

Text

Result

Hello World

He

true

Hello World

World

false

Hello World

BotGhost

false

Ends With

The Ends With operation checks if your string ends with a specific portion of text. It returns true when it does, and false when it doesn't. You can alternatively use the ends with comparison type in the Comparison Condition block.

Search

The text that is compared at the end of the original string. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used in this input.

Examples

Text

Result

Hello World

World

true

Hello World

He

false

Hello World

BotGhost

false

Match

The Match operation will return the first match from a regular expression (regex) pattern. If there are any capturing groups, it will return them after the match, separated by commas. The variable can also be used as an array when surrounded with the [] brackets.

Regular expressions can be a tricky concept and take practice. Before using this operation, it's advised to check out other resources like Regex101 and MDN Web Documentation to learn more and experiment with regular expressions. You can also use the ChatGPT module or other AI websites to generate regex patterns for you, but they may not always be accurate.

Search

The regular expression pattern to search for. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used.

Examples

Text

Result

API Requests are Good

[A-Z]

A,P,I,R,G

This is a test, using regex to find the word test in a sentence.

\btest\b

test,test

This is a test to find numbers in a sentence. Since there are no numbers here, it will not return any matches

\b\d+\b

null

Search

The Search operation will return the index of the first match from a regular expression (regex) pattern.

Search

The regular expression pattern to search for. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used.

Example

Text

Result

API Requests are Good

[A-Z]

A,P,I,R,G

This is a test, using regex to find the word test in a sentence.

\btest\b

test,test

This is a test to find numbers in a sentence. Since there are no numbers here, it will not return any matches

\b\d+\b

null

Operation

Information

Replace

Returns the original text with a portion of it replaced.

Replace All

Returns the original text with portions of it replaced.

Split

Returns the original text divided into an array.

Repeat

Returns the original text a specified number of times.

Replace

The Replace operation replaces the first occurrence of a substring from the original text with another string you've specified.

Search

The portion of text that must be replaced in the text. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used in this input.

Replacement

The portion of text to replace with. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used in this input.

Examples

Text

Replacement

Hello World!

World

everyone

Hello everyone!

Hello World!

BotGhost

Hello BotGhost World!

Cats are cute

C

R

Rats are cute

Replace All

The Replace All operation replaces all occurrences of a substring from the original text with another string you've specified.

Search

The portion of text that must be replaced in the text. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used in this input.

Replacement

The portion of text to replace with. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used in this input.

Examples

Text

Replacement

Result

Hello World

World

everyone

Hello everyone!

you are smart, aren't you?

you

we

we are smart, aren't we?

Bitter

t

l

Biller

Split

The Split operation separates your string with commas based on a delimeter. The variable can also be used as an array when surrounded with the [] brackets.

Search

The text that your string will be split around. This input is case sensitive. All Variables can be used.

Examples

Text

Result

20/04/2024

/

20,4,2024

docs.botghost.com

.

docs,botghost,com

Hello everyone!

c

Hello everyone!

Repeat

The Repeat operation duplicates your string a specified number of times.

Count

The number of times your string will appear. All Variables can be used in this input.

Examples

Text

Count

Result

ah

ahahahahah

Hello!

Hello! Hello!

Variable

The Variable field allows you to name the variable that can be used in other Actions and Conditions that follow this action block in the same command or event. You can use the clipboard icon under Result Variable to copy this variable to your device's clipboard.

If the variable used in this field already has a value, the previous value will be overwritten and cannot be accessed again.

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To Uppercase

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To Lowercase

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Replacement

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