Text

Here are some examples of text:

• "thing #1"
• "March 12, 2010"
• "" (an empty string)

Text can contain uppercase or lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, other symbols, and spaces between words.

Create text with

The create text with block joins (concatenates) the values of several strings to build a new string.

Python

'' + str(A) + str(B) + str(C)

Append text

The append text block adds the given text to the specified variable.

Python

VAR = str(VAR) + TEXT

Length of text

The length of block counts the letters, numbers, and other characters in a string and returns the total length.
The length of abc below is 3, and the length of an empty string is 0.

Python

len(VALUE)

Is empty

The is empty block checks whether the given string is empty (that is, whether its length is 0).

Python

len(VALUE) == 0

Find text

These blocks check whether one string occurs inside another and, if it does, return its position.

Python

(VALUE.find(FIND) + 1)
(VALUE.rfind(FIND) + 1)

Get a single letter

Gets one character at a specific position in a string.
There are several options: first, last, random, and letter #N.

Python

TEXT[N - 1]
TEXT[len(TEXT) - N]
TEXT[0]
TEXT[-1]
TEXT[int(random.random() * len(TEXT))]

Get substring

The get substring block lets you extract a specific range of a string.

Python

TEXT[at1:at2]

Change letter case

This block converts the input string into one of the following forms:

• UPPER CASE: converts every letter to uppercase
• lower case: converts every letter to lowercase
• Title Case: capitalizes the first letter of each word and lowercases the rest

Python

TEXT.upper() # UPPER CASE
TEXT.lower() # lower case
TEXT.title() # Title Case

Trim whitespace

The following block removes whitespace from a string at these positions:

• both sides
• left side
• right side

Python

TEXT.strip()    # both sides
TEXT.lstrip()   # left side
TEXT.rstrip()   # right side

Count occurrences in text

Counts and returns how many times a specific substring appears in the given string.

Python

HAYSTACK.count(NEEDLE)

Replace text

Replaces every occurrence of a specific substring in a string with another string.

Python

HAYSTACK.replace(NEEDLE, REPLACEMENT)

Reverse text

Returns a new string with the order of the characters reversed.

Python

TEXT[::-1]

Print text

The print block shows the input value in a popup window.

Python

print(TEXT)

Get user input

The following block creates a popup window that asks the user for input, and the entered value is stored in a variable.
You can accept either text or a number.

Python

input(TEXT)
float(input(TEXT))