TF CMD Cheatsheet

📝 TF CMD Cheatsheet: String Functions

func	output	usage
startswith("hello world", "hello")	true
endswith("hello world", "world")	true
upper("hello")	HELLO
lower("HELLO")	hello
strrev("hello")	olleh
substr("hello world", 1, 4)	ello
title("hello world")	Hello World
trim("?!hello?!", "!?")	hello	Removes the specified set of characters from the start and end of the given string.
trimsuffix("helloworld", "world")	hello	removes the specified suffix from the end of the given string.
trimprefix("helloworld", "hello")	world	removes the specified prefix from the start of the given string.
trimspace(" hello\n\n")	hello	removes any space characters from the start and end of the given string.
indent(2, "[\n foo,\n bar,\n]\n")	"[\n foo,\n bar,\n ]\n"	adds a given number of spaces to the beginnings of all but the first line in a given multi-line string.
join("-", ["foo", "bar", "baz"])	"foo-bar-baz"	produces a string by concatenating all of the elements of the specified list of strings with the specified separator.
replace("1 + 2 + 3", "+", "-")	1 - 2 - 3	searches a given string for another given substring, and replaces each occurrence with a given replacement string.
split(",", "foo,bar,baz")	["foo","bar","baz",]	produces a list by dividing a given string at all occurrences of a given separator.

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