String

Note: This feature is for ZScript only.

String is a built-in type in ZScript. It is used for text data and has some additional features in it.

Special operations

Concatenation

You can use the .. operator to concatenate text representations of any objects (ints, doubles...) into a single string. Example:

 double x = 4;
 int y = 2;
 A_Log(x..", "..y); // outputs 4.00000, 2

Note that this way you cannot control the count of digits after the decimal point, for example. For that, see Format.

Casting a single code point string literal as an integer will convert that string literal to its appropriate code point:

int codePoint = int("a"); // This will set codePoint to 97, the ASCII code for a

Note that this doesn't work with string variables, only literals.

Decimal places

The number of decimal places displayed can set with %.#f where # is the number of places to print. For example:

double foo = 1.534234;
String str = String.Format("%.2f", foo); //str = "1.53"

Padding

You can control the size of padding with %#d where # is the number of places to pad. For example:

int foo = 10;
String str = String.Format("%4d", foo); //str = "  10"

The size of padding can also be controlled dynamically, by using %*d and passing the size of padding as an integer to String.Format:

int foo = 10;
int padding = 4;
// Pad to the 'padding' number of characters:
String str = String.Format("%*d", padding, foo); //str = "  10"

By default padding is done with spaces. A custom character can be placed right after % to define a custom padding character. This can be combined with either of the above syntaxes:

int foo = 10;
// Pad to 4 characters using zeroes:
String str = String.Format("%04d", foo); //str = "0010"

Example of how this can be used in a ZScript HUD:

Ammo am1, am2;
int am1amt, am2amt;
[am1, am2, am1amt, am2amt] = GetCurrentAmmo();
int padding;
if (am1)
{
  // Determine padding as the length of maxamount of ammo1
  // (for example, if maxamount is 200, padding will be 3):
  padding = String.Format("%d", am1.maxamount).Length();
  // Create a string like "aaa/bbb" where aaa is the current
  // ammo1 amount, and bbb is ammo1 maxamount. Both sides will
  // be padded to the length of its maxamount:
  String ammo1string = String.Format("%*d\c/%*d", padding, am1amt, padding, am1.maxamount);
}
[...] // can be repeated for am2

In the example above, if the current amount of Ammo1 is 60, and its maxamount is 400, ammo1string will contain " 60/400".

Methods

Static

int CharLower (int ch)

If available, returns the lower case character code for the character ch.

int CharUpper (int ch)

If available, returns the upper case character code for the character ch.

vararg String Format (String fmt, ...)

Allows to format a string using a subset of C Printf format.

 A_Log(String.Format("%p = %s (at %.2f, %.2f, %.2f)", self, GetClassName(), pos.x, pos.y, pos.z));

Note: uppercase formats generally mean uppercase versions of outputs.

Format	Description
%%	Escaped % character.
%s	A string. Can be padded, for example, %-20s will mean that the string will be minimum 20 characters long.
%p	A pointer. This takes an object, for example, an actor pointer like self.
%c	An unsigned integer as character. Refer to the ASCII table for character indices.
%d, %i	A signed integer as decimal. Signed integers can be negative. Can be padded with zeroes with formats like %04d (this particular one means minimum of 4 characters).
%u	An unsigned integer as decimal. Unsigned integers cannot be negative.
%x, %X	An unsigned integer as hexadecimal. %08X outputs uppercase 8-digit value padded with zeroes.
%o	An unsigned integer as octal.
%f, %F	A simple double format, for example, 1.82. Exact precision can be specified using %.2f (for guaranteed two digits after the decimal point).
%e, %E	An exponent-based double format, for example, 2.00E-01 for 0.2. Exact precision for the main part can be specified the same way as for %f.
%g, %G	Either %f/%F or %e/%E, depending on the situation and size of the number.
%a, %A	A hexadecimal double format. This is not recommended to use, as it is OS-dependent.

Non-static

void AppendCharacter (int c)

Appends a character code to the end of the string.

vararg void AppendFormat (String fmt, ...)

This is the same as Format, but it needs an existing string and appends the formatted value to it.

 String s;
 s.AppendFormat("%s %.2f", "meow", 0.24);

int ByteAt (int pos) const

Returns the code for the character at pos index in the string as a byte. Note that strings in GZDoom support unicode characters and as such, the code returned may not match the actual character in the string. GetNextCodePoint should be used for safety since this will take non-ASCII characters into account.

String CharAt (int pos) const (deprecated)

(Note: this has been deprecated in favor of Left and Mid.)

Returns the character at the specified position as a string.

 String s = "abcd";
 String chrat = s.CharAt(1); // should be "b"

int CharCodeAt (int pos) const (deprecated)

(Note: this has been deprecated in favor of ByteAt.)

Returns the character at the specified position as an integer (ASCII code). This can be used with the %c format.

int CodePointCount () const

Returns the number of code points in the string. This gets the actual number of characters present when taking unicode into account.

void DeleteLastCharacter ()

Deletes the last character in the string.

String Filter ()

Locates any escape sequences within the string and replaces them with appropriate escape characters. Returns the new string with escape characters.

int, int GetNextCodePoint (int position) const

Returns the code for the character at position index in the string as an integer and the index of the next code point respectively. This should be used for adding unicode support when iterating through a string.

for (int i = 0; i < myString.Length();)
{
    int chr, next;
    [chr, next] = myString.GetNextCodePoint(i);

    console.printf("%c", chr); // Prints the proper character, even if it uses more than one byte

    i = next;
}

int IndexOf (String substr, int startIndex = 0) const

Attempts to find and return the starting position of substr, if the string matches. This searches from left to right starting from startIndex position in the string. This function is case sensitive. If there is no match, returns -1.

// Returns 5, since every character from left to right is a position.
// I.e. the I is at position 0, W at 1, a at 2, n at 3, t at 4, T at 5.
String tacoline = "IWantTacos";
int location = tacoline.IndexOf("Tacos");

int LastIndexOf (String substr, int endIndex = 2147483647) const (deprecated)

(Note: as of GZDoom 3.5.1, this function has been deprecated in favor of RightIndexOf due to incorrect implementation.)

Like IndexOf, but with a reversed search pattern going from right to left. This function is case sensitive.

String Left (int len) const

Like Mid, but always starts at the very beginning of the string.

 String s = "barkblargh";
 String bark = s.Left(4); // should result in a string "bark"

int Length ()

Returns the number of bytes in the string. Use CodePointCount to get the true number of characters.

String s = "abcd";
int size = s.Length(); // Returns 4.

String MakeLower () const

Returns the string converted to all lower-case letters.

String MakeUpper () const

Returns the string converted to all upper-case letters.

String Mid (int pos = 0, int len = 2147483647) const

Returns a substring starting at pos and len bytes long, or, if len is too large, until the end of the string.

 String s = "tmeowd";
 String meow = s.Mid(1, 4); // should result in a string "meow"

void Remove (int index, int remlen)

Deletes remlen bytes from the string starting at index position in it.

void Replace (String pattern, String replacement)
void Substitute (String str, String replace)

Replaces all occurrences of the specified pattern with replacement in an existing string.

 String s = "ZScript sucks";
 s.Replace("sucks", "is awesome");
 A_Log(s); // should output "ZScript is awesome"

Substitute functions the same as Replace.

int RightIndexOf (String substr, int endIndex = 2147483647) const

Like IndexOf, but with a reversed search pattern going from right to left. This function is case sensitive.

void Split (out Array<String> tokens, String delimiter, EmptyTokenType keepEmpty = TOK_KEEPEMPTY) const

Appends pieces of the string to an array, separated by delimiter. Elements already in the array will be kept. keepEmpty can be one of two values:

TOK_SKIPEMPTY - If the split string has a length of 0, don't add it to the tokens array.
TOK_KEEPEMPTY - Keep all strings regardless of length.

// Takes a list of possible actors and spawns one at random.
Array<String> tospawn;
string spawnlist = "BFG9000, Megasphere, Berserk, Backpack, Cyberdemon, InvulnerabilitySphere";
spawnlist.Split(tospawn, ", ");
Spawn(tospawn[random(0, tospawn.Size() - 1)], pos);

void StripLeft (String junk = "")

(Verification needed)

Removes from the start of the string a part that matches junk string. If junk is an empty string, then the function removes

white space instead.

void StripLeftRight (String junk = "")

(Verification needed)

Removes from the start and end of the string a part that matches junk string. If junk is an empty string, then the function removes white space instead.

void StripRight (String junk = "")

Removes from the end of the string a part that matches junk string. If junk is an empty string, then the function removes white space instead.

string s1 = "Blue     ";
string s2 = "CardBlahBlahBlah";
Console.Printf("%s%s", s1, s2); // Prints "Blue      CardBlahBlahBlah".
s1.StripRight();                // Remove white space from the end of s1.
s2.StripRight("Blah");          // Remove "Blah" from the end of s2.
Console.Printf("%s%s", s1, s2); // Prints "BlueCard".

double ToDouble () const

Returns the string converted to a double up to the first invalid character it finds.

int ToInt (int base = 0) const

Returns the string converted to an integer of base base up to the first invalid character it finds. If base is non zero, then the string will be treated as if it was a number of that base. If base is zero the string is used to determine the base.

string s = "012";
int i = s.ToInt(); // s = 10, this is an octal number
i = s.ToInt(10); // s = 12, this is a decimal number

void ToLower () (deprecated)

(Note: this function has been deprecated in favor of MakeLower.)

Converts the string to all lower-case letters.

void ToUpper () (deprecated)

(Note: this function has been deprecated in favor of MakeUpper.)

Converts the string to all upper-case letters.

// Prints out a text string as upper case letters. If the font has upper and lower case,
// the difference will be visible. The default console font has both.
String t = "test";
Console.Printf("%s", t.ToUpper());

void Truncate (int newlen)

Truncates the string to the specified byte length.

String t = "12345678";
Console.Printf("%s", t);// this will print "12345678"
t.Truncate(4); //string t has been truncated
Console.Printf("%s", t);// this will print "1234"

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