Chilkat_9_5_0.CkString PHP ActiveX Reference Documentation

Chilkat_9_5_0.CkString

Current Version: 9.5.0.97

The Chilkat string class.

Object Creation

$obj = new COM("Chilkat_9_5_0.CkString");

Properties

NumArabic
int NumArabic (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

The number of Arabic characters contained in this string.

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NumAscii
int NumAscii (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

The number of us-ascii characters contained in this string.

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NumCentralEuro
int NumCentralEuro (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

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.

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NumChars
int NumChars (read-only)

To be documented soon...

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NumChinese
int NumChinese (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

The number of Chinese characters contained in this string.

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NumCyrillic
int NumCyrillic (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

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.

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NumGreek
int NumGreek (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

The number of Greek characters contained in this string.

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NumHebrew
int NumHebrew (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

The number of Hebrew characters contained in this string.

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NumJapanese
int NumJapanese (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

The number of Japanese characters contained in this string.

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NumKorean
int NumKorean (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

The number of Korean characters contained in this string.

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NumLatin
int NumLatin (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

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.

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NumThai
int NumThai (read-only)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.25

The number of Thai characters contained in this string.

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SizeAnsi
int SizeAnsi (read-only)

The size, in bytes, of the ANSI encoding of the string.

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SizeUtf8
int SizeUtf8 (read-only)

The size, in bytes, of the utf-8 encoding of the string.

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Str
string Str

The string value of this object.

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Methods

AnsiCharAt
int AnsiCharAt(int index)

Returns the ASCII value of the Nth char in the string. The 1st char is at index 0.

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Append
void Append(string str)

The str is appended to end of this instance.

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AppendDateRfc3339
void AppendDateRfc3339(Date dt)

Appends a date/time string in RFC 3339 format to the end of this instance.

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AppendDateRfc822
void AppendDateRfc822(Date dateTime)

The dateTime is appended in RFC 822 format to the end of this instance.

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AppendEncoded
void AppendEncoded(string str, string encoding, string charset)

Appends characters from an encoded string. The encoding may be "base64", "hex", "url", or "quoted-printable". For example, to append "ABC 123" from a URL-encoded string, call:

strObj.AppendEncoded("ABC+123","url","iso-8859-1")

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AppendMultibyte
void AppendMultibyte(VARIANT mbtext, string charsetEncoding)

Appends characters from a byte array. mbtext contains the character data. The input bytes are interpreted according to the character encoding specified by charsetEncoding.

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AppendToFile
bool AppendToFile(string path, string charsetEncoding)

Appends the contents of the string to a file. The string is first converted to the character encoding specified by charsetEncoding before being appended to the file.

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BeginsWith
bool BeginsWith(string str)

Returns true if the string begins with str. Otherwise returns false. This method is case sensitive.

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ChopAfter
void ChopAfter(string findStr)

Truncates the string after the 1st occurrence of findStr. If findStr is not present, nothing is truncated.

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ChopBefore
void ChopBefore(string findStr)

Truncates the string before the 1st occurrence of findStr. If findStr is not present, nothing is truncated.

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Clear
void Clear()

Clears the string. After calling this method, the string contains 0 characters.

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Contains
bool Contains(string substr)

Returns true if substr is present in the string (case sensitive), otherwise returns false.

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EmitMultibyte
VARIANT EmitMultibyte(string charsetEncoding)

Converts the string to a byte array using the character encoding specified by charsetEncoding.

Returns null on failure

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EndsWith
bool EndsWith(string substr)

Returns true if the string ends with substr (case-sensitive). Otherwise returns false.

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GetEncoded
string GetEncoded(string binaryEncoding, string charsetEncoding)

Returns the character string in an encoding use the charsetEncoding specified. The binaryEncoding may be "base64", "hex", "url", or "quoted-printable". For example:

(Visual Basic 6.0)

Dim s As New CkString

s.Str = "èèè"
Text1.Text = s.GetEncoded("hex", "iso-8859-1") & vbCrLf
Text1.Text = Text.Text & s.GetEncoded("hex", "utf-8") & vbCrLf
Text1.Text = Text1.Text & s.GetEncoded("hex", "unicode")

'Output:
'E8E8E8
'C3A8C3A8C3A8
'E800E800E800

Returns null on failure

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HtmlEntityDecode
void HtmlEntityDecode()

Decodes any HTML entities found in the string.

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HtmlEntityEncode
void HtmlEntityEncode()

HTML entity encodes all special characters. (Those characters that might require HTML entity encoding.)

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LastAnsiChar
int LastAnsiChar()

Returns the ASCII value of the last character in the string.

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Left
string Left(int numChars)

Returns a string that is the leftmost numChars of this instance.

Returns null on failure

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Length
int Length()

Returns the length, in characters, of the string.

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LoadFile
bool LoadFile(string path, string charsetEncoding)

Loads an entire text file into the string object. 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.

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LoadXmlDoc
void LoadXmlDoc(VARIANT xmlDocumentBytes)

Loads an XML document into the CkString. The xmlDocumentBytes contains the raw bytes of the XML document. The reason for providing a separate method for loading an XML document is because the charset encoding is usually specified using a "charset" attribute at the beginning of the XML document. The LoadXmlDoc method reads just enough of the XML document to get the charset, and then it knows how to read and interpret the bytes of the entire XML document, so that the bytes of the characters are properly interpeted and loaded into the CkString object.

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Matches
bool Matches(string strPattern, bool caseSensitive)

Returns true if the string matches the strPattern, which may contain one or more asterisk wildcard characters. Case-sensitivity is controlled by , where 1 = case sensitive, 0 = case insensitive.

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Mid
string Mid(int index, int numChars)

Same as the VB/VBScript "Mid" function, except that the 1st char is at index 0 (i.e. it is not 1-based). Returns a substring of length numChars starting at index.

Returns null on failure

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ParseDateRfc3339
Date ParseDateRfc3339()

Converts the date string (in RFC 3339 format) to a Date type.

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ParseDateRfc822
Date ParseDateRfc822()

Converts the date string (in RFC 822 format) to a Date type.

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Pluralize
void Pluralize()

Pluralizes an English word.

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Prepend
void Prepend(string str)

Prepends str to this instance.

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PunyDecode
void PunyDecode()
Introduced in version 9.5.0.52

In-place decodes the string from punycode.

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PunyEncode
void PunyEncode()
Introduced in version 9.5.0.52

In-place encodes the string to punycode.

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RemoveAnsiChar
void RemoveAnsiChar(int ch)

Removes all occurrences of ch from the string.

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ReplaceAll
void ReplaceAll(string findStr, string replaceStr)

Replaces all occurrences of findStr with replaceStr. (case sensitive)

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ReplaceAnsiChar
void ReplaceAnsiChar(int findCh, int replaceCh)

Replaces all occurrences of findCh with replaceCh.

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ReplaceFirst
void ReplaceFirst(string findStr, string replaceStr)

Replaces the first occurrence of findStr with replaceStr. (case sensitive)

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Right
string Right(int numChars)

Returns a string that is the rightmost numChars of this instance.

Returns null on failure

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SaveToFile
bool SaveToFile(string path, string charsetEncoding)

Saves the string to a file, using the character encoding specified by charsetEncoding. This method allows for the string to be saved using character encodings such as "utf-8", "Unicode", "Shift-JIS", or anything else...

Returns true for success, false for failure.

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Shorten
void Shorten(int numChars)

Removes the final numChars from the string.

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StrComp
int StrComp(string str, bool caseSensitive)

Lexicographically compares two strings. Returns 0 if both strings are equal. A value greater than zero indicates that the first character that does not match has a greater value in the caller's string than in str; And a value less than zero indicates the opposite.

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StripHtml
void StripHtml()

Strips HTML tags from a string.

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ToCRLF
void ToCRLF()

Converts all line endings to CRLF.

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ToLF
void ToLF()

Converts all line endings to bare-LF (Unix/Linux style).

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Trim
void Trim()

Trim SPACE and Tab characters from both ends of the string.

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Trim2
void Trim2()

Trim SPACE, Tab, CR, and LF characters from both ends of the string.

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TrimInside
void TrimInside()

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.

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Unpluralize
void Unpluralize()

Unpluralizes an English word.

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