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str

A sequence of Unicode codepoints.

You can iterate over the grapheme clusters of the string using a for loop. Grapheme clusters are basically characters but keep together things that belong together, e.g. multiple codepoints that together form a flag emoji. Strings can be added with the + operator, joined together and multiplied with integers.

Typst provides utility methods for string manipulation. Many of these methods (e.g., split, trim and replace) operate on patterns: A pattern can be either a string or a regular expression. This makes the methods quite versatile.

All lengths and indices are expressed in terms of UTF-8 bytes. Indices are zero-based and negative indices wrap around to the end of the string.

You can convert a value to a string with this type's constructor.

Example

#"hello world!" \
#"\"hello\n  world\"!" \
#"1 2 3".split() \
#"1,2;3".split(regex("[,;]")) \
#(regex("\d+") in "ten euros") \
#(regex("\d+") in "10 euros")
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Escape sequences

Just like in markup, you can escape a few symbols in strings:

Constructor
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Converts a value to a string.

If you wish to convert from and to Unicode code points, see the to-unicode and from-unicode functions.

#str(10) \
#str(4000, base: 16) \
#str(2.7) \
#str(1e8) \
#str(<intro>)
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value
int or float or str or bytes or label or decimal or version or type
RequiredPositional
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The value that should be converted to a string.

base

The base (radix) to display integers in, between 2 and 36.

Default: 10

Definitions
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len

The length of the string in UTF-8 encoded bytes.

self.len(
) -> int

first

Extracts the first grapheme cluster of the string. Fails with an error if the string is empty.

self.first(
) -> str

last

Extracts the last grapheme cluster of the string. Fails with an error if the string is empty.

self.last(
) -> str

at

Extracts the first grapheme cluster after the specified index. Returns the default value if the index is out of bounds or fails with an error if no default value was specified.

self.at() -> any

index
int
RequiredPositional
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The byte index. If negative, indexes from the back.

default
any

A default value to return if the index is out of bounds.

slice

Extracts a substring of the string. Fails with an error if the start or end index is out of bounds.

self.slice() -> str

start
int
RequiredPositional
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The start byte index (inclusive). If negative, indexes from the back.

end
none or int
Positional
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The end byte index (exclusive). If omitted, the whole slice until the end of the string is extracted. If negative, indexes from the back.

Default: none

count

The number of bytes to extract. This is equivalent to passing start + count as the end position. Mutually exclusive with end.

clusters

Returns the grapheme clusters of the string as an array of substrings.

self.clusters(
) -> array

codepoints

Returns the Unicode codepoints of the string as an array of substrings.

self.codepoints(
) -> array

to-unicode

Converts a character into its corresponding code point.

str.to-unicode() -> int
#"a".to-unicode() \
#("a\u{0300}"
   .codepoints()
   .map(str.to-unicode))
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character
str
RequiredPositional
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The character that should be converted.

from-unicode

Converts a unicode code point into its corresponding string.

str.from-unicode() -> str
#str.from-unicode(97)
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value
int
RequiredPositional
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The code point that should be converted.

contains

Whether the string contains the specified pattern.

This method also has dedicated syntax: You can write "bc" in "abcd" instead of "abcd".contains("bc").

self.contains() -> bool

pattern
str or regex
RequiredPositional
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The pattern to search for.

starts-with

Whether the string starts with the specified pattern.

self.starts-with() -> bool

pattern
str or regex
RequiredPositional
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The pattern the string might start with.

ends-with

Whether the string ends with the specified pattern.

self.ends-with() -> bool

pattern
str or regex
RequiredPositional
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The pattern the string might end with.

find

Searches for the specified pattern in the string and returns the first match as a string or none if there is no match.

self.find() -> nonestr

pattern
str or regex
RequiredPositional
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The pattern to search for.

position

Searches for the specified pattern in the string and returns the index of the first match as an integer or none if there is no match.

self.position() -> noneint

pattern
str or regex
RequiredPositional
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The pattern to search for.

match

Searches for the specified pattern in the string and returns a dictionary with details about the first match or none if there is no match.

The returned dictionary has the following keys:

self.match() -> nonedictionary

pattern
str or regex
RequiredPositional
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The pattern to search for.

matches

Searches for the specified pattern in the string and returns an array of dictionaries with details about all matches. For details about the returned dictionaries, see above.

self.matches() -> array

pattern
str or regex
RequiredPositional
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The pattern to search for.

replace

Replace at most count occurrences of the given pattern with a replacement string or function (beginning from the start). If no count is given, all occurrences are replaced.

pattern
str or regex
RequiredPositional
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The pattern to search for.

replacement
str or function
RequiredPositional
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The string to replace the matches with or a function that gets a dictionary for each match and can return individual replacement strings.

count

If given, only the first count matches of the pattern are placed.

trim

Removes matches of a pattern from one or both sides of the string, once or repeatedly and returns the resulting string.

pattern
none or str or regex
Positional
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The pattern to search for. If none, trims white spaces.

Default: none

at

Can be start or end to only trim the start or end of the string. If omitted, both sides are trimmed.

repeat

Whether to repeatedly removes matches of the pattern or just once. Defaults to true.

Default: true

split

Splits a string at matches of a specified pattern and returns an array of the resulting parts.

self.split() -> array

pattern
none or str or regex
Positional
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The pattern to split at. Defaults to whitespace.

Default: none

rev

Reverse the string.

self.rev(
) -> str