Interface IShortStringHelper

Provides string functions for short strings such as aliases or URL segments.

Namespace: Umbraco.Core.Strings

Assembly: Umbraco.Core.dll

Syntax

public interface IShortStringHelper

Remarks

Not necessarily optimized to work on large bodies of text.

Methods

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CleanString(String, CleanStringType)

Cleans a string.

Declaration

string CleanString(string text, CleanStringType stringType)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to clean.
CleanStringType	stringType	A flag indicating the target casing and encoding of the string. By default, strings are cleaned up to camelCase and Ascii.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The clean string.

Remarks

The string is cleaned in the context of the IShortStringHelper default culture.

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CleanString(String, CleanStringType, Char)

Cleans a string, using a specified separator.

Declaration

string CleanString(string text, CleanStringType stringType, char separator)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to clean.
CleanStringType	stringType	A flag indicating the target casing and encoding of the string. By default, strings are cleaned up to camelCase and Ascii.
System.Char	separator	The separator.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The clean string.

Remarks

The string is cleaned in the context of the IShortStringHelper default culture.

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CleanString(String, CleanStringType, Char, String)

Cleans a string in the context of a specified culture, using a specified separator.

Declaration

string CleanString(string text, CleanStringType stringType, char separator, string culture)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to clean.
CleanStringType	stringType	A flag indicating the target casing and encoding of the string. By default, strings are cleaned up to camelCase and Ascii.
System.Char	separator	The separator.
System.String	culture	The culture.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The clean string.

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CleanString(String, CleanStringType, String)

Cleans a string in the context of a specified culture.

Declaration

string CleanString(string text, CleanStringType stringType, string culture)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to clean.
CleanStringType	stringType	A flag indicating the target casing and encoding of the string. By default, strings are cleaned up to camelCase and Ascii.
System.String	culture	The culture.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The clean string.

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CleanStringForSafeAlias(String)

Cleans a string to produce a string that can safely be used in an alias.

Declaration

string CleanStringForSafeAlias(string text)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe alias.

Remarks

The string will be cleaned in the context of the IShortStringHelper default culture.

A safe alias is [a-z][a-zA-Z0-9_]* although legacy will also accept '-', and '_' at the beginning.

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CleanStringForSafeAlias(String, String)

Cleans a string, in the context of a specified culture, to produce a string that can safely be used in an alias.

Declaration

string CleanStringForSafeAlias(string text, string culture)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.
System.String	culture	The culture.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe alias.

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CleanStringForSafeFileName(String)

Cleans a string, in the context of the invariant culture, to produce a string that can safely be used as a filename, both internally (on disk) and externally (as a URL).

Declaration

string CleanStringForSafeFileName(string text)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe filename.

Remarks

Legacy says this was used to "overcome an issue when Umbraco is used in IE in an intranet environment" but that issue is not documented.

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CleanStringForSafeFileName(String, String)

Cleans a string, in the context of a specified culture, to produce a string that can safely be used as a filename, both internally (on disk) and externally (as a URL).

Declaration

string CleanStringForSafeFileName(string text, string culture)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.
System.String	culture	The culture.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe filename.

Remarks

Legacy says this was used to "overcome an issue when Umbraco is used in IE in an intranet environment" but that issue is not documented.

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CleanStringForUrlSegment(String)

Cleans a string to produce a string that can safely be used in an URL segment.

Declaration

string CleanStringForUrlSegment(string text)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe URL segment.

Remarks

The string will be cleaned in the context of the IShortStringHelper default culture.

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CleanStringForUrlSegment(String, String)

Cleans a string, in the context of a specified culture, to produce a string that can safely be used in an URL segment.

Declaration

string CleanStringForUrlSegment(string text, string culture)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.
System.String	culture	The culture.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe URL segment.

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SplitPascalCasing(String, Char)

Splits a pascal-cased string by inserting a separator in between each term.

Declaration

string SplitPascalCasing(string text, char separator)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to split.
System.Char	separator	The separator.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The split string.

Remarks

Supports Utf8 and Ascii strings, not Unicode strings.