Table of Contents

• String functions
• Changing the case
• toLowerCase()
• toUpperCase()
• Searching for a substring
• indexOf(subst, pos)
• includes()
• match()
• Getting a substring
• slice()
• substring()
• Transforming a string
• split()
• concat()
• replace()
• trim()
• References

String functions

Here are some of the most fundamental JS string functions.

Assume the code below is declared at the top level in the following examples.

var string = "string"

Changing the case

toLowerCase()

Converts a string to lowercase letters.

let s6 = "STRING".toLowerCase();
console.log(s6); //=> "string"

toUpperCase()

Converts a string to uppercase letters.

let s7 = string.toUpperCase();
console.log(s7); //=> "STRING"

Searching for a substring

indexOf(subst, pos)

It looks for the substr in a string, starting from the given position pos.

console.log(string.indexOf('i')) //=> 3

let string2 = 'string string'

console.log(string2.indexOf('string', 2)) //=> 7

includes()

Checks whether a string contains the specified string/characters.

console.log(string.includes("s")); //=> true

match()

Searches a string for a match against a regular expression, and returns the matches.

const regex = /\w/g;
let s4 = string.match(regex);
console.log(s4); //=> ["s", "t", "r", "i", "n", "g"]

Getting a substring

slice()

Extracts a part of a string and returns a new string.

let s2 = string.slice(0, 3); ///=> str
console.log(s2);

substring()

Extracts a part of a string and returns a new string.

let s2 = string.substring(0, 3); ///=> str
console.log(s2);

Transforming a string

split()

Splits a string into an array of substrings.

let s1 = string.split("");
console.log(s1); //=> ["s", "t", "r", "i", "n", "g"]

concat()

Joins two or more strings, and returns a new joined strings.

let s3 = string.concat("string");
console.log(s3); //=> stringstring

replace()

Searches a string for a specified value, or a regular expression, and returns a new string where the specified values are replaced.

let s5 = string.replace(/s/, "S");
console.log(s5); //=> String

trim()

Removes whitespace from both ends of a string.

let s8 = " strn g   ".trim();
console.log(s8); //=> strn g

let s9 = "  string  ".trimLeft();
console.log(s9); //=> "string  "

let s10 = "  string    ".trimRight();
console.log(s10); //=> "  string"

References

• w3schools.com