In my last blog post, I explain in detail the String functions available in the new Data Mapper, and I endup documenting each of them.
String functions are used to manipulate strings in standard ways, such as conversions to all uppercase or all lowercase, string concatenation, determination of string length, white space trimming, etc. If you come from the BizTalk Server background or are migrating BizTalk Server projects, they are the equivalent of String Functoids inside BizTalk Mapper Editor.
The String functoids are:
- Codepoints to string: Converts the specified codepoints value to a string and returns the result.
- Concat: Combines two or more strings and returns the combined string.
- Contains: Returns true or false based on whether the string input contains the specified substring.
- Ends with: Returns true or false based on whether the string input ends with the specified substring.
- Length: Returns the number of items in the specified string or array.
- Lowercase: Returns a string in lowercase format.
- Name: Returns the local name of the selector node, which is useful when you want to retrieve the name of the incoming message component, not the value.
- Regular expression matches: Returns true or false based on whether the string input matches the specified regular expression.
- Regular expression replace: Returns a string created from the string input by using a given regular expression to find and replace matching substrings with the specified string.
- Replace: Replaces a substring with the specified string and return the new complete string.
- Starts with: Returns true if the given string starts with the specified substring.
- String to codepoints: Converts the specified string to codepoints.
- Substring: Returns characters from the specified string, starting from the specified position.
- Substring after: Returns the characters that follow the specified substring in the source string.
- Substring before: Returns the characters that precede the specified substring in the source string.
- Trim: Returns the specified string with all the leading and trailing white space characters removed.
- Trim left: Returns the specified string with all the leading white space characters removed.
- Trim right: Returns the specified string with all the trailing white space characters removed.
- Uppercase: Returns a string in uppercase format.
In this video, we will see each of these String Functions in action. For each one, we will provide simple input data, and we will see what the expected output is.
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