Strings

Strings are any type of text that contain letters, numbers and symbols. For example "c", "4 sale", and "Hello World"; Strings are defined using the keyword string and the variable name.

string s = "hello world";
string name = "Bob";

Strings must be surrounded by double quotation marks. Gel does not recognize single quotes.

/* will not work */
string s = 'hello world';

/* will work */
string s = "hello world";

String functions

substr

string s="hello world";
print substr(s,0,5); // prints first 5 characters "hello"

tolower

print tolower("Hello World");    // prints "hello world"

toupper

print toupper("Hello World");    // prints "HELLO WORLD"

tocamel

print tocamel("hello world");    // prints "Hello World"

len

print len("Hello World!");       // returns 12, length of the string