String Functions in Fusion

Question 1

What function removes all non-ascii characters from a text string?

Answer 1

ascii (text; [remove diacritics])

Question 2

What function transforms text to base64?

Answer 2

base64 (text)

Question 3

What function converts the first character in a text string to uppercase?

Answer 3

capitalize (text)

Question 4

What function verifies whether text contains the search string?

Answer 4

contains (text; search string)

Question 5

What function decodes special characters in a URL to text?

Answer 5

decodeURL (text)

Question 6

What function encodes special characters in some text to a valid URL address?

Answer 6

encodeURL (text)

Question 7

What function escapes all HTML tags in text?

Answer 7

escapeHTML (text)

Question 8

What function escapes all Markdown tags in text?

Answer 8

escapeMarkdown(text)

Question 9

What function returns the position of the first occurrence of a specified value in a string?

Answer 9

indexOf (string; value; [start])

*This method returns ‘-1’ if the value that is searched for is not there. The start value indicates where in the string the search should begin.

Question 10

What function returns the length of text string (number of characters) or binary buffer (buffer size in bytes)?

Answer 10

length (text or buffer)

Question 11

What function converts all alphabetical characters in a text string to lowercase?

Answer 11

lower (text)

Question 12

What function calculates the md5 hash of a string?

Answer 12

md5 (text)

Question 13

What function replaces the search string with the new string?

Answer 13

replace (text;search string; replacement string)

Question 14

What special replacement patterns can be included in a replacement strong?

Answer 14

$& - Inserts the matched substring
$n - Where n is a positive integer less than 100, inserts the nth parenthesized submatch string. This is 1-indexed.

Question 15

What function calculates the sha1 hash of a string?

Answer 15

sha1 (text; [encoding]; [key])

*If the key argument is specified, sha1 HMAC hash is returned instead. Supported encodings: “hex” (default), “base64” or “latin1.”

Question 16

What function calculates the sha256 hash of a string?

Answer 16

sha256 (text; [encoding]; [key])

*If the key argument is specified, sha256 HMAC hash is returned instead. Supported encodings: “hex” (default), “base64” or “latin1”.>

Question 17

What function calculates the sha512 hash of a string?

Answer 17

sha512 (text; [output encoding]; [key]; [key encoding])

*If the key argument is specified, sha512 HMAC hash is returned instead.

Question 18

What function splits a string into an array of strings by separating the string into substrings?

Answer 18

split (text; separator)

Question 19

What function capitalizes the first letter of every word and lower cases all other letters?

Answer 19

startcase (text)

Question 20

What function removes all HTML tags from text?

Answer 20

stripHTML (text)

Question 21

What function returns a portion of a text string between the “start” position and “end” position?

Answer 21

substring (text; start; end)

Question 22

What function converts any value to binary data?

Answer 22

toBinary (value)

*You can also specify encoding as a second argument to apply binary conversions from hex or base64 to binary data.

Question 23

What function converts any value to a string?

Answer 23

toString (value)

Question 24

What function removes space characters at the start or end of the text?

Answer 24

trim (text)

Question 25

What function converts all alphabetical characters in a text string to uppercase?

Answer 25

upper (text)