String API

Title FREE

Capitalizes the first letter in every word.

Example

"i love abracadalo!" ➔ "I Love Abracadalo!"

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/title

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be conversed	Yes

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
string	String	String after conversion

Uppercase FREE

Makes all letters in the string uppercase.

Example

"This is awesome :)" ➔ "THIS IS AWESOME :)"

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/uppercase

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be conversed	Yes

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
string	String	String after conversion

Lowercase FREE

Makes all letters in the string lowercase.

Example

"New York City (NYC)" ➔ "new york city (nyc)"

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/lowercase

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be conversed	Yes

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
string	String	String after conversion

Trim FREE

Removes white spaces from ends of a string.

Example

" penguins are cute " ➔ "penguins are cute"

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/trim

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be trimmed	Yes
side	String	Trim white spaces only from "left" or "right" end. (Default: both)	No

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
string	Integer	Trimmed string

Length FREE

Returns the length (amount of characters) in a string.

Example

"Penguins are cute!" ➔ 18

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/length

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be conversed	Yes

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
length	Integer	Length of the string

Starts With FREE

Validates if a string starts with a given prefix.

Example

"Elon Musk", "Elon" ➔ true

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/startsWith

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be validated	Yes
prefix	String	The string to be searched for at the beginning of string.	Yes
ignoreCase	Booean	If case should be ignored. (Default: false)	No
offset	Integer	The position in string from where to begin the validation. (Default: 0)	No

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
result	BoolString	If the validation was successful.

Ends With FREE

Validates if a string ends with a given suffix.

Example

"Elon Musk", "Musk" ➔ true

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/endsWith

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be validated	Yes
suffix	String	The string to be searched for at the end of string.	Yes
ignoreCase	Boolean	If case should be ignored. (Default: false)	No
length	Number	Length of string to contemplate (i.e. only consider the first X characters of the string). (Default: Length of string)	No

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
result	BoolString	If the validation was successful.

Is Alpha FREE

Validates if a string only contains alphabetical letters (no digits or special characters).

WARNING

Be aware that your language might contain letters like ä, é, or ß. This function in this case would return false. Then you might opt for a more powerful function like RegEx Test.

Example

"Elon" ➔ true

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/isAlpha

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be validated	Yes
whitespaces	Boolean	Allow whitespaces to occur in the string. (Default: false)	No

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
result	BoolString	If the validation was successful.

Is Numeric FREE

Validates if a string represents an integer or floating number.

Examples

"42" ➔ true

"1.23" ➔ true

" 1.23 " ➔ true

"1,23" ➔ false

"1,000.23" ➔ false

"hi" ➔ false

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/isNumeric

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be validated	Yes

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
result	BoolString	If the validation was successful.

Is Decimal FREE

Validates if a string represents an integer.

Examples

"42" ➔ true

"1.23" ➔ false

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/isDecimal

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be validated	Yes

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
result	BoolString	If the validation was successful.

Replace

Replaces all occurrences of search in string with replace.

Example

"Can I have your van, man?", "an", "oon" ➔ "Coon, I have your voon, moon?"

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/replace

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be conversed	Yes
search	String	Substring to be replaced	Yes
replace	String	Replacement for search	Yes

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
string	String	String after conversion.

Words

Splits a string at its whitespaces to return the list of words.

Example

"Can I have your van, man?" ➔ ["Can", "I", "have", "your", "van,", "man?"], 6

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/words

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be split	Yes

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
words	Array of strings	Words.
count	Number	Amount of words.

Split

Splits a string at any given separator.

Example

"Red and blue and yellow and pink", " and " ➔ ["Red", "blue", "yellow", "pink"], 4

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/split

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to be split	Yes
separator	String	Determines where each split should occur	Yes

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
pieces	Array of strings.	Separated pieces.
count	Number	Amount of pieces.

Date

Convert a string to an Adalo "Date & Time" object.

Example

Our API is very flexible about your input. All the following examples are valid inputs and will return the same output!

1651651200000

"2022-05-04 8:00"

"05/04/2022 08:00"

"04/05/2022 08:00", "fr"

"May 4th 2022, 8:00:00 am", "MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a"

"Mercredi, 4 Mai 2022, 8", "dddd, D MMMM YYYY, h", "fr"

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/date

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
date	String	Formatted date.	Yes
format	String	Format specification of date.	No
locale	String	Locale of date (language code). Can be used in combination or as an alternative to format.	No

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
result	Date & Time	Result.

Substring

Extract a portion of a string.

Example

"Abracadalo", 1, 3 ➔ "brac"

"Abracadalo", 3 ➔ "acadalo"

"Abracadalo", -5 ➔ "adalo"

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/substring

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	Original string.	Yes
start	Number	Start position. Negative numbers count from end of string.	Yes
length	Number	Number of characters onwards from start position. (Default: until end of string)	No

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
result	String	Substring.

Reverse

Reverse a string.

Example

"reverse me" ➔ "em esrever"

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/reverse

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String to reverse.	Yes

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
result	String	Reversed string.

Padding

Add padding to a string. This can be interesting to, e.g., have leading zeros in order to force a 2-digit representation of a number (08, 09, 10, 11).

Example

"8", 4 ➔ "0008"

"OK", 8, "xyz" ➔ "xyzxyzOK"

API Base URL

https://api.abracadalo.com/string/padding

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
string	String	String that requires padding.	Yes
length	Number	Target length of the result string.	Yes
pad	String	String used as padding. (Default: "0")	No
side	String	Side to append the padding (either "left" or "right"). (Default: "left")	No

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
result	String	String after padding.