CkString Perl Reference Documentation
CkString
Current Version: 10.0.0
The Chilkat string class.
Object Creation
$obj = chilkat::CkString->new();
Properties
NumArabic
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumArabic();
The number of Arabic characters contained in this string.
topNumAscii
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumAscii();
The number of us-ascii characters contained in this string.
topNumCentralEuro
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumCentralEuro();
The number of Central European and Eastern European characters found in this string. These are characters specific to Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian (Latin script), Romanian and Albanian.
topNumChinese
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumChinese();
The number of Chinese characters contained in this string.
topNumCyrillic
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumCyrillic();
The number of Cyrillic characters contained in this string. The Cyrillic alphabet also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is actually a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by certain East and South Slavic languages "” Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian and Ukrainian"”as well as many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.
topNumGreek
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumGreek();
The number of Greek characters contained in this string.
topNumHebrew
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumHebrew();
The number of Hebrew characters contained in this string.
topNumJapanese
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumJapanese();
The number of Japanese characters contained in this string.
topNumKorean
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumKorean();
The number of Korean characters contained in this string.
topNumLatin
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumLatin();
The number of Latin characters contained in this string. Latin characters include all major Western European languages, such as German, Spanish, French, Italian, Nordic languages, etc.
Note: This is the number of chars that are Latin characters that do not fall in the us-ascii range. In other words, the 8bit Latin chars.
topNumThai
$intVal = $ckString->get_NumThai();
The number of Thai characters contained in this string.
topMethods
append
$ckString->append($str);
The str is appended to end of this instance.
topappendAnsi
$ckString->appendAnsi($str);
Appends an ANSI string to the end of this instance. str should always be a null terminated ANSI string regardless of the Utf8 property setting.
topappendChar
$ckString->appendChar($c);
Appends a single ANSI character to the end of this instance.
topappendCurrentDateRfc822
Appends the current date/time to the end of this instance. The date/time is formatted according to the RFC822 standard, which is the typical format used in the "Date" header field of email. For example: "Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:41:41 -0500"
topappendEnc
# $charsetEncoding is a string
$ckString->appendEnc($str, $charsetEncoding);
Appends a string of any character encoding to the end of this instance. Examples of charsetEncoding are: Shift_JIS, windows-1255, iso-8859-2, gb2312, etc. The str should point to a null-terminated string that uses the charset specified by charsetEncoding.
appendHexData
# $numBytes is an integer
$ckString->appendHexData($byteData, $numBytes);
Converts the binary data to a hexidecimal string representation and appends to the end of this instance. The hex data is appended in 2-byte chunks with 16 bytes per line. For example:
6861 6C6C 6861 6C6C 6861 6C6C 6861 6C6C 6861 6C6C 6861 6C6C 6861 6C6C 6861 6C6C 6861 6C6C 6861 6C6C 6861 6C6C 6861 6C6Ctop
appendInt
$ckString->appendInt($n);
Appends the decimal string representation of an integer to the end of this instance.
topappendN
# $numBytes is an integer
$ckString->appendN($str, $numBytes);
Appends N bytes of character data to the end of this instance. If the Utf8 property is set to 1, then str should point to characters in the utf-8 encoding, otherwise it should point to characters using the ANSI encoding. Note: numBytes is not necessarily the number of characters. It is the length, in bytes, of the string to be appended. This method exists to allow for non-null terminated strings to be appended.
topappendNU
# $numChars is an integer
$ckString->appendNU($wideStr, $numChars);
Append N Unicode characters to the end of this instance. The wideStr points to the 2-byte per char Unicode string. The numChars is the number of Unicode characters to be appended (not the number of bytes).
topappendRandom
# $encoding is a string
$ckString->appendRandom($numBytes, $encoding);
Appends numBytes random bytes to the end of this instance. Because arbitrary byte values in the range 0 to 255 do not necessarily represent valid characters, the bytes must be encoded to a string friendly representation such as hex, base64, etc. The encoding specifies the encoding to be used. Possible values are "hex", "base64", "quoted-printable", "asc", or "url".
topappendStr
$ckString->appendStr($strObj);
Appends the contents of strObj to the end of this instance.
topappendU
$ckString->appendU($unicode);
Append a Unicode string to the CkString object.
topappendUtf8
$ckString->appendUtf8($str);
Appends a utf-8 string to the existing contents of this instance. str should always be a null terminated utf-8 string regardless of the Utf8 property setting.
topbase64Decode
$ckString->base64Decode($charsetEncoding);
In-place base64 decodes the string and inteprets the results according to the character encoding specified.
base64DecodeW
$ckString->base64DecodeW($charsetEncoding);
The utf-16 version of base64Decode.
topbase64Encode
$ckString->base64Encode($charsetEncoding);
In-place base64 encodes the string. Internally, the string is first converted to the character encoding specified and then base-64 encoded. Typical charsetEncoding values are "utf-8", "ANSI", "iso-8859-1", etc.
base64EncodeW
$ckString->base64EncodeW($charsetEncoding);
The utf-16 version of base64Encode.
topbeginsWith
$retBool = $ckString->beginsWith($substr);
Return 1 if this string begins with substr (case sensitive), otherwise returns 0.
topbeginsWithStr
$retBool = $ckString->beginsWithStr($strObj);
Returns 1 if the string begins with the contents of strObj. Otherwise returns 0. This method is case sensitive.
topbeginsWithW
$retBool = $ckString->beginsWithW($str);
The utf-16 version of beginsWith.
topcharAt
$retChar = $ckString->charAt($idx);
Returns the ANSI character at a specified index.The first character is at index 0.
topcharAtU
$utf16_char = $ckString->charAtU($idx);
Return the Nth character as a Unicode character.
topchopAtFirstChar
$ckString->chopAtFirstChar($ch);
Finds the first occurrence of ch and discards the characters at and following ch.
topchopAtStr
$ckString->chopAtStr($subStrObj);
Finds the first occurrence of a substring and chops it at that point. The result is that the substring and all subsequent characters are removed from the string.
topclear
Clears the string. The string contains 0 characters after calling this method.
topclone
$ret_ckString = $ckString->clone();
Creates a copy of the string. As with any newly created Chilkat object instance returned by a Chilkat method, the returned CkString object must be deleted by the calling application.
Returns null on failure
topcompareStr
$retInt = $ckString->compareStr($str);
Compare two strings. A return value = 0 means they are equal. Return value = 1 indicates that calling object is lexicographically less than argument. Return value = -1 indicates that calling object is lexicographically greater than argument.
topcontainsSubstring
$retBool = $ckString->containsSubstring($substr);
Returns 1 if the string contains the specified substring, otherwise returns 0. The string comparison is case-sensitive.
topcontainsSubstringNoCase
$retBool = $ckString->containsSubstringNoCase($substr);
Same as containsSubstring except the matching is case insensitive.
topcontainsSubstringNoCaseW
$retBool = $ckString->containsSubstringNoCaseW($substr);
The utf-16 version of containsSubstringNoCase.
topcontainsSubstringW
$retBool = $ckString->containsSubstringW($substr);
The utf-16 version of containsSubstring.
topcountCharOccurances
$retInt = $ckString->countCharOccurances($ch);
Returns the number of occurrences of the specified ANSI char.
topdecodeXMLSpecial
Decodes XML special characters. For example, < is converted to '<'
topdoubleValue
Converts the string to a double and returns the value.
topeliminateChar
# $startIndex is an integer
$ckString->eliminateChar($ansiChar, $startIndex);
Eliminate all occurrences of a particular ANSI character.
topencodeXMLSpecial
Encodes XML special characters. For example, '<' is converted to <
topendsWith
$retBool = $ckString->endsWith($substr);
Returns 1 if the string ends with substr (case-sensitive). Otherwise returns 0.
topendsWithStr
$retBool = $ckString->endsWithStr($substrObj);
Returns 1 if the string ends with the specified substring, otherwise returns 0.
topendsWithW
$retBool = $ckString->endsWithW($s);
The utf-16 version of endsWith.
topentityDecode
Decodes any HTML entities found within the string, replacing them with the characters represented.
topentityEncode
HTML encodes any characters that are special to HTML or cannot be represented by 7-bit us-ascii.
topequals
$retBool = $ckString->equals($str);
Returns 1 if the strings are equal, otherwise returns 0. (case-sensitive)
topequalsIgnoreCase
$retBool = $ckString->equalsIgnoreCase($str);
Returns 1 if the strings are equal, otherwise returns 0. (case-insensitive)
topequalsIgnoreCaseStr
$retBool = $ckString->equalsIgnoreCaseStr($strObj);
Returns 1 if the strings are equal, otherwise returns 0 (case-insensitive)
topequalsIgnoreCaseW
$retBool = $ckString->equalsIgnoreCaseW($s);
The utf-16 version of equalsIgnoreCase.
topequalsStr
$retBool = $ckString->equalsStr($strObj);
Returns 1 if the strings are equal, otherwise returns 0. (case-sensitive)
topequalsW
$retBool = $ckString->equalsW($s);
The utf-16 version of the "equals" method.
topgetChar
# $idx is an integer
$ret_ckString = $ckString->getChar($idx);
Returns a new CkString object containing the Nth character. (Note, it does not contain the Nth byte, but the Nth character.) For languages such as Chinese, Japanese, etc. individual characters are represented by multiple or varying number of bytes.
Returns null on failure
topgetNumChars
Returns the number of characters in the string.
topgetSizeAnsi
Returns the size, in bytes, of the ANSI encoding of the string.
topgetSizeUnicode
Returns the size, in bytes, of the Unicode encoding of the string.
topgetSizeUtf8
Returns the size, in bytes, of the utf-8 encoding of the string.
topgetUnicode
Return a pointer to memory containing the string in Unicode.
tophexDecode
$ckString->hexDecode($charsetEncoding);
Hex decodes a string and inteprets the bytes according to the character encoding specified.
hexDecodeW
$ckString->hexDecodeW($charsetEncoding);
The utf-16 version of hexDecode.
tophexEncode
$ckString->hexEncode($charsetEncoding);
Converts the string to the character encoding specified and replaces the string contents with the hex encoding of the character data.
hexEncodeW
$ckString->hexEncodeW($charsetEncoding);
The utf-16 version of hexEncode.
topindexOf
$retInt = $ckString->indexOf($substr);
Returns the index of the first occurrence of a substring. Returns -1 if not found.
topindexOfStr
$retInt = $ckString->indexOfStr($substrObj);
Returns the index of the first occurrence of a substring. Returns -1 if not found.
topindexOfW
$retInt = $ckString->indexOfW($s);
The utf-16 version of "indexOf".
topintValue
Converts the string to an integer and returns the integer value.
topisEmpty
Returns 1 if the string object is empty, otherwise returns 0.
toplastChar
Returns the last ANSI character in the string.
toploadFile
# $charsetEncoding is a string
$status = $ckString->loadFile($path, $charsetEncoding);
Load the contents of a text file into the CkString object. The string is cleared before loading. The character encoding of the text file is specified by charsetEncoding. This method allows for text files in any charset to be loaded: utf-8, Unicode, Shift_JIS, iso-8859-1, etc.
Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.
loadFileW
# $charsetEncoding is a utf-16 string
$status = $ckString->loadFileW($path, $charsetEncoding);
matches
$retBool = $ckString->matches($strPattern);
Returns 1 if the string matches the strPattern, which may contain one or more asterisk wildcard characters. Returns 0 if the string does not match. This method is case-sensitive.
topmatchesNoCase
$retBool = $ckString->matchesNoCase($strPattern);
Returns 1 if the string matches the strPattern, which may contain one or more asterisk wildcard characters. Returns 0 if the string does not match. This method is case-insensitive.
topmatchesNoCaseW
$retBool = $ckString->matchesNoCaseW($s);
The utf-16 version of matchesNoCase.
topmatchesStr
$retBool = $ckString->matchesStr($strPatternObj);
Returns 1 if the string matches a pattern, otherwise returns 0. The pattern may contain any number of wildcard '*' characters which represent 0 or more occurrences of any character. This method is case-sensitive.
topmatchesW
$retBool = $ckString->matchesW($s);
The utf-16 version of the "matches" method.
topminimizeMemory
Minimizes the amount of memory consumed by this object. For example, consider the following: A CkString object is loaded with the contents of a text file. The "replaceAllOccurances" method is called, replacing longer substrings with shorter replacements. The actual string length will become shorter than the internal buffer space that is allocated. The minimizeMemory method will, if necessary, allocate a new internal buffer that is exactly the size needed to hold the current contents of the string, copy the string to the new internal buffer, and deallocate the old buffer.
topobfuscate
Obfuscates the string. (The unobfuscate method can be called to reverse the obfuscation to restore the original string.)
The Chilkat string obfuscation algorithm works by taking the utf-8 bytes of the string, base64 encoding it, and then scrambling the letters of the base64 encoded string. It is deterministic in that the same string will always obfuscate to the same result. It is not a secure way of encrypting a string. It is only meant to be a simple means of transforming a string into something unintelligible.
topprepend
$ckString->prepend($str);
Prepends str to this instance.
topprependW
$ckString->prependW($s);
The utf-16 version of the "prepend" method.
toppunyDecode
In-place decodes the string from punycode.
toppunyEncode
In-place encodes the string to punycode.
topqpDecode
$ckString->qpDecode($charsetEncoding);
Quoted-printable decodes the string and interprets the resulting character data according to the specified character encoding. The result is that the quoted-printable string is in-place decoded.
qpDecodeW
$ckString->qpDecodeW($charset);
The utf-16 version of the qpDecode method.
topqpEncode
$ckString->qpEncode($charsetEncoding);
Quoted-printable encodes the string. The string is first converted to the charset specified, and those bytes are QP-encoded. The contents of the string are replaced with the QP-encoded result.
qpEncodeW
$ckString->qpEncodeW($charset);
The utf-16 version of the qpEncode method.
topremoveAll
$retInt = $ckString->removeAll($substr);
Removes all occurrences of substr.
topremoveCharOccurances
$ckString->removeCharOccurances($ch);
Removes all occurrences of a specific ANSI character from the string.
topremoveChunk
# $numChars is an integer
$ckString->removeChunk($charStartPos, $numChars);
Removes a chunk of characters specified by starting index and length.
topremoveDelimited
# $endDelim is a string
# $caseSensitive is a boolean
$ckString->removeDelimited($beginDelim, $endDelim, $caseSensitive);
Remove all occurrences of strings delimited by beginDelim and endDelim. Also removes the delimiters.
topremoveFirst
$retBool = $ckString->removeFirst($substr);
Removes the first occurrence of a substring.
topreplaceAll
# $replaceStrObj is a CkString
$retInt = $ckString->replaceAll($findStrObj, $replaceStrObj);
Replaces all occurrences of a substring with another. The replacement string is allowed to be empty or different in length.
topreplaceAllOccurances
# $replaceStr is a string
$retInt = $ckString->replaceAllOccurances($findStr, $replaceStr);
Replaces all occurrences of a substring with another substring. The replacement string is allowed to be empty or different in length.
topreplaceAllOccurancesW
# $replacement is a utf-16 string
$retInt = $ckString->replaceAllOccurancesW($pattern, $replacement);
The utf-16 version of the replaceAllOccurances method.
topreplaceChar
# $replaceCh is a char
$ckString->replaceChar($findCh, $replaceCh);
Replaces all occurrences of a specified ANSI character with another.
topreplaceFirst
# $replaceStrObj is a CkString
$retBool = $ckString->replaceFirst($findStrObj, $replaceStrObj);
Replaces the first occurrence of a substring with another. The replacement string is allowed to be empty or different in length.
topreplaceFirstOccurance
# $replaceStr is a string
$retBool = $ckString->replaceFirstOccurance($findStr, $replaceStr);
Replaces the first occurrence of a substring with another. The replacement string is allowed to be empty or different in length. (Chilkat is aware of the misspelling of the word "occurrence", but unfortunately it is too late to change..)
topreplaceFirstOccuranceW
# $replacement is a utf-16 string
$retBool = $ckString->replaceFirstOccuranceW($pattern, $replacement);
The utf-16 version of replaceFirstOccurrance. (Chilkat is aware of the misspelling of the word "occurrence", but unfortunately it is too late to change..)
topsaveToFile
# $charsetEncoding is a string
$status = $ckString->saveToFile($path, $charsetEncoding);
Saves the string to a file using the character encoding specified by charsetEncoding. If a file of the same name exists, it is overwritten. For charsets such as "utf-8", "utf-16", or others that have a possible BOM/preamble, the preamble is output by default. To exclude the BOM/preamble, prepend "no-bom-" to the charset name. For example "no-bom-utf-8".
Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.
saveToFileW
# $charset is a utf-16 string
$status = $ckString->saveToFileW($path, $charset);
setStr
$ckString->setStr($s);
Replaces the contents of the string with another.
topsetString
$ckString->setString($str);
Clears the contents of this instance and appends str.
topsetStringAnsi
$ckString->setStringAnsi($s);
Set the CkString object from an ANSI string.
topsetStringU
$ckString->setStringU($unicode);
Set the CkString object from a Unicode string.
topsetStringUtf8
$ckString->setStringUtf8($s);
Set the string object from a utf-8 string.
topshorten
$ckString->shorten($n);
Discards the last N characters.
topsplit
# $delimiterChar is a char
# $exceptDoubleQuoted is a boolean
# $exceptEscaped is a boolean
# $keepEmpty is a boolean
$ret_stringArray = $ckString->split($delimiterChar, $exceptDoubleQuoted, $exceptEscaped, $keepEmpty);
Splits a string into a collection of strings using a delimiter character. If exceptEscaped is 1, then delimiter chars escaped with a backslash are ignored. If exceptDoubleQuoted is 1, then delimiter chars inside quotes are ignored. If keepEmpty is 0, then empty strings are excluded from being added to the returned CkStringArray object.
Returns null on failure
topsplit2
# $delimiterChars is a string
# $exceptDoubleQuoted is a boolean
# $exceptEscaped is a boolean
# $keepEmpty is a boolean
$ret_stringArray = $ckString->split2($delimiterChars, $exceptDoubleQuoted, $exceptEscaped, $keepEmpty);
split2W
# $splitCharSet is a utf-16 string
# $exceptDoubleQuoted is a boolean
# $exceptEscaped is a boolean
# $keepEmpty is a boolean
$ret_stringArray = $ckString->split2W($splitCharSet, $exceptDoubleQuoted, $exceptEscaped, $keepEmpty);
splitAtWS
substring
# $startCharIndex is an integer
# $numChars is an integer
$ret_ckString = $ckString->substring($startCharIndex, $numChars);
Returns a substring specified by starting character position and number of characters. (The 1st char is at index 0.)
Returns null on failure
toptoCRLF
Converts all line endings to CRLF.
toptokenize
# $punctuation is a string
$ret_stringArray = $ckString->tokenize($punctuation);
Tokenizes a string. The string is split at whitespace characters, and any single punctuation character is returned as a separate token. For example, this string:
CkStringArray *CkString::tokenize(char *punctuation) const
is tokenized to
CkStringArray
*
CkString
:
:
tokenize
(
*
punctuation
)
const
Returns null on failure
toptokenizeW
# $punctuation is a utf-16 string
$ret_stringArray = $ckString->tokenizeW($punctuation);
toLF
Converts all line endings to bare-LF (Unix/Linux style line endings).
toptoLowerCase
Converts the string to lowercase.
toptoUpperCase
Converts the string to uppercase.
toptrim
Trim SPACE and Tab characters from both ends of the string.
toptrim2
Trim SPACE, Tab, CR, and LF characters from both ends of the string.
toptrimInsideSpaces
Replaces all tabs, CR's, and LF's, with SPACE chars, and removes extra SPACE's so there are no occurrences of more than one SPACE char in a row.
topunobfuscate
Unobfuscates the string.
The Chilkat string obfuscation algorithm works by taking the utf-8 bytes of the string, base64 encoding it, and then scrambling the letters of the base64 encoded string. It is deterministic in that the same string will always obfuscate to the same result. It is not a secure way of encrypting a string. It is only meant to be a simple means of transforming a string into something unintelligible.
topurlDecode
$ckString->urlDecode($charsetEncoding);
URL decodes the string and interprets the resulting byte data in the specified charset encoding.
urlDecodeW
$ckString->urlDecodeW($charsetEncoding);
The utf-16 version of the urlDecode method.
topurlEncode
$ckString->urlEncode($charsetEncoding);
URL encodes the string. The string is first converted to the specified charset encoding, and those bytes are URL-encoded. The contents of the string are replaced with the URL-encoded result.
urlEncodeW
$ckString->urlEncodeW($charsetEncoding);
The utf-16 version of the urlEncode method.
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