Text Blocks

text
join
make text
length
text<
text=
text>
trim
upcase
downcase
starts at
contains
split at first
split at first of any
split
split at any
split at spaces
segment
replace all

text

Contains a text string.

join

Appends the second given string to the first. For this operation, and all text operations, numbers can be treated as text. For example, using a join block to join 1 plus 1 and 2 times 3 results in 26 (2 joined with 6).

make text

Joins all given values into one text string.

length

Returns the length of the given string.

<

Reports whether the first text string argument is alphabetically less than the second text string. If two strings begin with the same characters, the shorter string is considered smaller. Uppercase characters precede lowercase characters.

text=

Reports whether the text strings are identical, i.e., have the same characters in the same order.

Note that if you are comparing text boxes that contain digits, there is a difference between comparing them numerically using ordinary equality ( = ) versus comparing them as text strings ( text= ). If you create two text boxes, one with the characters 123 and one with the characters 0123, then these will be equal numerically but not equal as text strings. Be careful that, when it comes to comparisons like this, there is a difference between entering the digits using number boxes, versus entering them as text boxes. Suppose you create two number boxes, on with 123 and one with 0123. If you compare those two boxes using text= you'll get the result that they are equal. The reason is that the digits you enter into a number box get converted to a number; the actual string of digits is not preserved. If you want to take account of the actual string of digits, then use a text box.

text>

Reports whether the first text string argument is alphabetically greater than the second text string. If two strings begin with the same characters, the shorter string is considered smaller. Uppercase characters precede lowercase characters.

trim

Returns a copy of its text string argument with any leading or trailing spaces removed.

upcase

Returns a copy of its text string argument converted to uppercase.

downcase

Returns a copy of its text string argument converted to lowercase.

starts at

Returns the character position where the first character of piece first appears in text, or 0 if not present. For example, the location of ana in havana banana is 4.

contains

Returns true if piece appears in text; otherwise, returns false.

split at first

Divides the given text into two pieces using the location of the first occurrence of at as the dividing point, and returns a two-item list consisting of the piece before the dividing point and the piece after the dividing point. Splitting apple,banana,cherry,dogfood with a comma as the splitting point returns a list of two items: the first is the text apple and the second is the text banana,cherry,dogfood. Notice that the comma after apple doesn't appear in the result, because that is the dividing point.

split at first of any

Divides the given text into a two-item list, using the location of any item in the list at as the dividing point.

split

Divides text into pieces using at as the dividing points and produces a list of the results. Splitting one,two,three,four at , (comma) returns the list (one two three four). Splitting one-potato,two-potato,three-potato,four at -potato, returns the list (one two three four).

split at any

Divides the given text into a list, using any of the items in at as the dividing point, and returns a list of the results. Splitting appleberry,banana,cherry,dogfood with at as the two-element list whose first item is a comma and whose second item is rry returns a list of four items: (applebe banana che dogfood)