ƒ.string - Get-Kraken/fixx GitHub Wiki

ƒ.string.make

make.guid()

returns a guid that is hyphen separated into 5 groups (read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_unique_identifier)

example:

ƒ.string.make.guid(); // → "db01f33b-a59b-f094-a946-d49dc264a895"

ƒ.string.convert

br2nl('text') used to replace break tags in raw text and replace with \r\n
nl2br('text') used to replace \r\n with <br />

use case: when on screen text is clickable to make it editable in a text box. The text box will show the break tags within the text if not converted to new lines.

var str = ƒ.string.convert.br2nl('foo<br>bar');

/* →
"foo \r\n
bar"
*/

ƒ.string.convert.nl2br(str);

/* → 
"foo<br />bar"
*/

Can also be used to prepare text for saving back to a database.

ƒ.string.contains

contains(string, term)

string text to be searched
term term to be searched for in string
return → true/false