string_extensions 0.4.3

Useful String extensions to save you time in production. Feel free to contribute with PR.

[0.4.3] - New Extensions

Thanks to zonaro

• isBlank : Checks if a String is null empty or contains only whitespaces.

• isNotBlank : Checks if a String is NOT null empty or contains only whitespaces.

• asIf : Compares a String to another and returns the first if equal, otherwise returns the second one.

• ifBlank(String default) : CHecks if a String is blank and gives it a default value.

[0.4.2] - Minor improvements & New Extensions

• Returns the String after a character / word.

after(String pattern)

• Returns the String before a character / word.

before(String pattern)

• Gets Jaro distance to check String similarity. The higher the number the similar the two Strings/

getJaro(String wordToCompare)

[0.4.1] - Minor improvements & New Extensions

• Converts the String to a bool value if possible.

tooBool

[0.4.0] - Breaking Changes & New Extensions

Breaking changes

Following extension methods are now created using get and can now being accessed without ().

• capitalize
• countWords
• removeNumbers
• onlyLatin
• onlyGreek
• isNull
• isIpv4
• isIpv6
• isUrl
• isDate
• isMail
• isNumber
• isStrongPassword
• isGuid
• isLatin
• isGreek
• onlyNumbers
• removeLetters
• charOccurences
• mostFrequent
• reverse
• toSlug
• toCamelCase
• toTitleCase
• toArray
• replaceGreek
• stripHtml
• hasSameCharacters
• shuffle

New Extensions

• Truncates String with "..." when more than n characters.

truncate(int maxChars)

• Truncates String in the middle with "..." keeping max n characters.

truncateMiddle(int maxChars)

• Quotes a String adding " at the start & at the end.

quote

• Trims leading and trailing spaces, so as extra spaces in between words.

trimAll

[0.3.5] - New Extensions

• Returns the month name of the DateTime (in String format).

getMonthFromDate(locale:'en')

• Returns the first day of the month from the provided DateTime (in String format).

firstDayOfMonth(locale:'en')

• Returns the last day of the month from the provided DateTime (in String format).

latsDayOfMonth(locale:'en')

• Returns left side of the String starting from char.

leftOf(String char)

• Returns right side of the String starting from char.

rightOf(String char)

[0.3.4] - New Extensions

• formatWithMask now accepts optional parameter specialChar which defaults to '#'

• Add a String at the beginning of your String.

prepend(String prefix)

• Adds - operator subtracting a text from a String
• Returns the day name of the DateTime (in String format).

String date = '2021-10-23';
String day = date.getDayFromDate(); // returns 'Saturday'
String grDay = date.getDayFromDate(locale:'el'); // returns 'Σάββατο'

[0.3.3] - New Extensions

• Removes the first n characters of the String.

removeFirst(int n)

• Removes the last n characters of the String.

removeLast(int n)

• Trims the String to have exactly n characters. If n is larger than the String length, the same String is returned.

maxChars(int n)

• Reverses slash provided the slash direction (int). 0 for / to \ and 1 for \ to /.

reverseSlash(int direction)

• Returns the character at index.

charAt(int index)

• Checks if a string is null.

isNull()

• Do something if a string is null.

ifNull(Function())

• Provide default value if a string is null.

defaultValue(String defaultValue)

• Append a String at the end of your String.

append(String suffix)

• Formats the String to properly show currency amount.

toPriceFormat({String? currencySymbol})

[0.3.2] - Bug Fixes & New Extensions

Bug fixes & New Extensions

• Returns only the Greek characters of the String.

onlyGreek()

• Checkes whether the String has only Latin characters.

isLatin()

• Checkes whether the String has only Greek characters.

isGreek()

• onlyLetters() is now onlyLatin() characters.
• The countWords extension now correctly counts only words, excluding numbers and symbols from words. For example, Hello 5 2asd friend ! word count will return 3 words.

[0.3.1] - New extensions

• Added String? operators >, >=, <, <= to compare String lengths.

• isIn(Iterable<String>), checks if a given String is in an Iterable<String>.

• formatWithMask(String mask), formats a String with a specific mask.

[0.3.0] - New extensions & Code improvements

Successfully converts library to extend String? from String. Further code optimization and bug fixes.

New extensions

• Converts the String to a num value if possible, else returns null.

toNum()

• Converts the String to int if possible, else returns null.

toInt()

• Converts the String to double if possible, else returns null.

toDouble()

[0.2.4] - New extensions

Improves and renames toStringArray (toArray now)

Adds a new extension that counts specific charater occurences in a String.

charCount(String char)

[0.2.3] - New extensions

• Squeezes a String to a character

squeeze(String x);

• Check if the String is consisted of same characters.

hasSameCharacters();

• Shuffles the word's letters.

shuffle();

• Gets the Levenshtein distance of two String

getLevenshtein();

• Checks if a String is a valid Url.

isUrl();

• Checks if a String is a valid Date.

isDate();

[0.2.2] - New extensions

• Repeats a String x times

repeat(int x);

• Check if the String is a valid Ipv6

isIpv6();

• Check if the String is a num

isNumber();

• An extension that makes easier handling empty strings.

ifEmpty(()=>print('The string is empty'));

[0.2.1] - Downgrade test library version

Some projects were breaking due to they depending on test_api:3.0.0 version.

[0.2.0] - Adds tests

[0.1.4] - New extension

Method to check whether a String is a valid Guid.

isGuid()

[0.1.3] - New extensions

• Method to get a List<String> from a String.

toStringArray()

• Method to strip all HTML code from a String.

stripHtml()

• Method to check whether a String is a strong password.

isStrongPassword()

[0.1.2] - New extensions & Code refactor

• Adds isEmpty checks on all extensions.

• Given a String and a pattern, finds the starting indices of all occurrences of the pattern in the String.

  findPattern({required String pattern})
  

[0.1.1] - New extensions

Useful method to normalize greek text for more performant text searches.

replaceGreek()

[0.1.0] - New extensions

first({int count})

last({int count})

toSlug()

[0.0.3] - New extensions and Null Safety

News

Migrates library to null safety.

Extension added :

toTitleCase()

[0.0.2] - New extensions and bug fixes

Bug fixes

• Methods now correctly remove trailing and leading whitespaces from strings.

New extensions

toCamelCase()

onlyNumbers()

removeLetters()

charOccurences()

mostFrequent()

reverse()

isIpv4()

[0.0.1] - Initial release

Extension methods

readTime()

isMail()

capitalize()

removeNumbers()

onlyLetters()

countWords()