Strings
Introduction
Laravel includes a variety of functions for manipulating string values. Many of these functions are used by the framework itself; however, you are free to use them in your own applications if you find them convenient.
Available Methods
Strings
__ class_basename e preg_replace_array Str::after Str::afterLast Str::apa Str::ascii Str::before Str::beforeLast Str::between Str::betweenFirst Str::camel Str::charAt Str::chopStart Str::chopEnd Str::contains Str::containsAll Str::doesntContain Str::deduplicate Str::endsWith Str::excerpt Str::finish Str::headline Str::inlineMarkdown Str::is Str::isAscii Str::isJson Str::isUlid Str::isUrl Str::isUuid Str::kebab Str::lcfirst Str::length Str::limit Str::lower Str::markdown Str::mask Str::orderedUuid Str::padBoth Str::padLeft Str::padRight Str::password Str::plural Str::pluralStudly Str::position Str::random Str::remove Str::repeat Str::replace Str::replaceArray Str::replaceFirst Str::replaceLast Str::replaceMatches Str::replaceStart Str::replaceEnd Str::reverse Str::singular Str::slug Str::snake Str::squish Str::start Str::startsWith Str::studly Str::substr Str::substrCount Str::substrReplace Str::swap Str::take Str::title Str::toBase64 Str::toHtmlString Str::transliterate Str::trim Str::ltrim Str::rtrim Str::ucfirst Str::ucsplit Str::upper Str::ulid Str::unwrap Str::uuid Str::wordCount Str::wordWrap Str::words Str::wrap str trans trans_choice
Fluent Strings
after afterLast apa append ascii basename before beforeLast between betweenFirst camel charAt classBasename chopStart chopEnd contains containsAll deduplicate dirname endsWith exactly excerpt explode finish headline inlineMarkdown is isAscii isEmpty isNotEmpty isJson isUlid isUrl isUuid kebab lcfirst length limit lower markdown mask match matchAll isMatch newLine padBoth padLeft padRight pipe plural position prepend remove repeat replace replaceArray replaceFirst replaceLast replaceMatches replaceStart replaceEnd scan singular slug snake split squish start startsWith stripTags studly substr substrReplace swap take tap test title toBase64 transliterate trim ltrim rtrim ucfirst ucsplit unwrap upper when whenContains whenContainsAll whenEmpty whenNotEmpty whenStartsWith whenEndsWith whenExactly whenNotExactly whenIs whenIsAscii whenIsUlid whenIsUuid whenTest wordCount words wrap
Strings
__()
The __
function translates the given translation string or translation key using your language files:
echo __('Welcome to our application'); echo __('messages.welcome');
If the specified translation string or key does not exist, the __
function will return the given value. So, using the example above, the __
function would return messages.welcome
if that translation key does not exist.
class_basename()
The class_basename
function returns the class name of the given class with the class's namespace removed:
$class = class_basename('Foo\Bar\Baz'); // Baz
e()
The e
function runs PHP's htmlspecialchars
function with the double_encode
option set to true
by default:
echo e('<html>foo</html>'); // <html>foo</html>
preg_replace_array()
The preg_replace_array
function replaces a given pattern in the string sequentially using an array:
$string = 'The event will take place between :start and :end'; $replaced = preg_replace_array('/:[a-z_]+/', ['8:30', '9:00'], $string); // The event will take place between 8:30 and 9:00
Str::after()
The Str::after
method returns everything after the given value in a string. The entire string will be returned if the value does not exist within the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::after('This is my name', 'This is'); // ' my name'
Str::afterLast()
The Str::afterLast
method returns everything after the last occurrence of the given value in a string. The entire string will be returned if the value does not exist within the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::afterLast('App\Http\Controllers\Controller', '\\'); // 'Controller'
Str::apa()
The Str::apa
method converts the given string to title case following the APA guidelines:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $title = Str::apa('Creating A Project'); // 'Creating a Project'
Str::ascii()
The Str::ascii
method will attempt to transliterate the string into an ASCII value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::ascii('û'); // 'u'
Str::before()
The Str::before
method returns everything before the given value in a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::before('This is my name', 'my name'); // 'This is '
Str::beforeLast()
The Str::beforeLast
method returns everything before the last occurrence of the given value in a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::beforeLast('This is my name', 'is'); // 'This '
Str::between()
The Str::between
method returns the portion of a string between two values:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::between('This is my name', 'This', 'name'); // ' is my '
Str::betweenFirst()
The Str::betweenFirst
method returns the smallest possible portion of a string between two values:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::betweenFirst('[a] bc [d]', '[', ']'); // 'a'
Str::camel()
The Str::camel
method converts the given string to camelCase
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::camel('foo_bar'); // 'fooBar'
Str::charAt()
The Str::charAt
method returns the character at the specified index. If the index is out of bounds, false
is returned:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $character = Str::charAt('This is my name.', 6); // 's'
Str::chopStart()
The Str::chopStart
method removes the first occurrence of the given value only if the value appears at the start of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $url = Str::chopStart('https://laravel.com', 'https://'); // 'laravel.com'
You may also pass an array as the second argument. If the string starts with any of the values in the array then that value will be removed from string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $url = Str::chopStart('http://laravel.com', ['https://', 'http://']); // 'laravel.com'
Str::chopEnd()
The Str::chopEnd
method removes the last occurrence of the given value only if the value appears at the end of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $url = Str::chopEnd('app/Models/Photograph.php', '.php'); // 'app/Models/Photograph'
You may also pass an array as the second argument. If the string ends with any of the values in the array then that value will be removed from string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $url = Str::chopEnd('laravel.com/index.php', ['/index.html', '/index.php']); // 'laravel.com'
Str::contains()
The Str::contains
method determines if the given string contains the given value. By default this method is case sensitive:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $contains = Str::contains('This is my name', 'my'); // true
You may also pass an array of values to determine if the given string contains any of the values in the array:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $contains = Str::contains('This is my name', ['my', 'foo']); // true
You may disable case sensitivity by setting the ignoreCase
argument to true
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $contains = Str::contains('This is my name', 'MY', ignoreCase: true); // true
Str::containsAll()
The Str::containsAll
method determines if the given string contains all of the values in a given array:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $containsAll = Str::containsAll('This is my name', ['my', 'name']); // true
You may disable case sensitivity by setting the ignoreCase
argument to true
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $containsAll = Str::containsAll('This is my name', ['MY', 'NAME'], ignoreCase: true); // true
Str::doesntContain()
The Str::doesntContain
method determines if the given string doesn't contain the given value. By default this method is case sensitive:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $doesntContain = Str::doesntContain('This is name', 'my'); // true
You may also pass an array of values to determine if the given string doesn't contain any of the values in the array:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $doesntContain = Str::doesntContain('This is name', ['my', 'foo']); // true
You may disable case sensitivity by setting the ignoreCase
argument to true
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $doesntContain = Str::doesntContain('This is name', 'MY', ignoreCase: true); // true
Str::deduplicate()
The Str::deduplicate
method replaces consecutive instances of a character with a single instance of that character in the given string. By default, the method deduplicates spaces:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::deduplicate('The Laravel Framework'); // The Laravel Framework
You may specify a different character to deduplicate by passing it in as the second argument to the method:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::deduplicate('The---Laravel---Framework', '-'); // The-Laravel-Framework
Str::endsWith()
The Str::endsWith
method determines if the given string ends with the given value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::endsWith('This is my name', 'name'); // true
You may also pass an array of values to determine if the given string ends with any of the values in the array:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::endsWith('This is my name', ['name', 'foo']); // true $result = Str::endsWith('This is my name', ['this', 'foo']); // false
Str::excerpt()
The Str::excerpt
method extracts an excerpt from a given string that matches the first instance of a phrase within that string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $excerpt = Str::excerpt('This is my name', 'my', [ 'radius' => 3]); // '...is my na...'
The radius
option, which defaults to 100
, allows you to define the number of characters that should appear on each side of the truncated string.
In addition, you may use the omission
option to define the string that will be prepended and appended to the truncated string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $excerpt = Str::excerpt('This is my name', 'name', [ 'radius' => 3, 'omission' => '(...) ']); // '(...) my name'
Str::finish()
The Str::finish
method adds a single instance of the given value to a string if it does not already end with that value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $adjusted = Str::finish('this/string', '/'); // this/string/ $adjusted = Str::finish('this/string/', '/'); // this/string/
Str::headline()
The Str::headline
method will convert strings delimited by casing, hyphens, or underscores into a space delimited string with each word's first letter capitalized:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $headline = Str::headline('steve_jobs'); // Steve Jobs $headline = Str::headline('EmailNotificationSent'); // Email Notification Sent
Str::inlineMarkdown()
The Str::inlineMarkdown
method converts GitHub flavored Markdown into inline HTML using CommonMark. However, unlike the markdown
method, it does not wrap all generated HTML in a block-level element:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $html = Str::inlineMarkdown('**Laravel**'); // <strong>Laravel</strong>
Markdown Security
By default, Markdown supports raw HTML, which will expose Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities when used with raw user input. As per the CommonMark Security documentation, you may use the html_input
option to either escape or strip raw HTML, and the allow_unsafe_links
option to specify whether to allow unsafe links. If you need to allow some raw HTML, you should pass your compiled Markdown through an HTML Purifier:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; Str::inlineMarkdown('Inject: <script>alert("Hello XSS!");</script>', [ 'html_input' => 'strip', 'allow_unsafe_links' => false,]); // Inject: alert("Hello XSS!");
Str::is()
The Str::is
method determines if a given string matches a given pattern. Asterisks may be used as wildcard values:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $matches = Str::is('foo*', 'foobar'); // true $matches = Str::is('baz*', 'foobar'); // false
Str::isAscii()
The Str::isAscii
method determines if a given string is 7 bit ASCII:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $isAscii = Str::isAscii('Taylor'); // true $isAscii = Str::isAscii('ü'); // false
Str::isJson()
The Str::isJson
method determines if the given string is valid JSON:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::isJson('[1,2,3]'); // true $result = Str::isJson('{"first": "John", "last": "Doe"}'); // true $result = Str::isJson('{first: "John", last: "Doe"}'); // false
Str::isUrl()
The Str::isUrl
method determines if the given string is a valid URL:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $isUrl = Str::isUrl('http://example.com'); // true $isUrl = Str::isUrl('laravel'); // false
The isUrl
method considers a wide range of protocols as valid. However, you may specify the protocols that should be considered valid by providing them to the isUrl
method:
$isUrl = Str::isUrl('http://example.com', ['http', 'https']);
Str::isUlid()
The Str::isUlid
method determines if the given string is a valid ULID:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $isUlid = Str::isUlid('01gd6r360bp37zj17nxb55yv40'); // true $isUlid = Str::isUlid('laravel'); // false
Str::isUuid()
The Str::isUuid
method determines if the given string is a valid UUID:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $isUuid = Str::isUuid('a0a2a2d2-0b87-4a18-83f2-2529882be2de'); // true $isUuid = Str::isUuid('laravel'); // false
Str::kebab()
The Str::kebab
method converts the given string to kebab-case
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::kebab('fooBar'); // foo-bar
Str::lcfirst()
The Str::lcfirst
method returns the given string with the first character lowercased:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::lcfirst('Foo Bar'); // foo Bar
Str::length()
The Str::length
method returns the length of the given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $length = Str::length('Laravel'); // 7
Str::limit()
The Str::limit
method truncates the given string to the specified length:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $truncated = Str::limit('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog', 20); // The quick brown fox...
You may pass a third argument to the method to change the string that will be appended to the end of the truncated string:
$truncated = Str::limit('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog', 20, ' (...)'); // The quick brown fox (...)
If you would like to preserve complete words when truncating the string, you may utilize the preserveWords
argument. When this argument is true
, the string will be truncated to the nearest complete word boundary:
$truncated = Str::limit('The quick brown fox', 12, preserveWords: true); // The quick...
Str::lower()
The Str::lower
method converts the given string to lowercase:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::lower('LARAVEL'); // laravel
Str::markdown()
The Str::markdown
method converts GitHub flavored Markdown into HTML using CommonMark:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $html = Str::markdown('# Laravel'); // <h1>Laravel</h1> $html = Str::markdown('# Taylor <b>Otwell</b>', [ 'html_input' => 'strip',]); // <h1>Taylor Otwell</h1>
Markdown Security
By default, Markdown supports raw HTML, which will expose Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities when used with raw user input. As per the CommonMark Security documentation, you may use the html_input
option to either escape or strip raw HTML, and the allow_unsafe_links
option to specify whether to allow unsafe links. If you need to allow some raw HTML, you should pass your compiled Markdown through an HTML Purifier:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; Str::markdown('Inject: <script>alert("Hello XSS!");</script>', [ 'html_input' => 'strip', 'allow_unsafe_links' => false,]); // <p>Inject: alert("Hello XSS!");</p>
Str::mask()
The Str::mask
method masks a portion of a string with a repeated character, and may be used to obfuscate segments of strings such as email addresses and phone numbers:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; // tay***************
If needed, you provide a negative number as the third argument to the mask
method, which will instruct the method to begin masking at the given distance from the end of the string:
// tay***@example.com
Str::orderedUuid()
The Str::orderedUuid
method generates a "timestamp first" UUID that may be efficiently stored in an indexed database column. Each UUID that is generated using this method will be sorted after UUIDs previously generated using the method:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; return (string) Str::orderedUuid();
Str::padBoth()
The Str::padBoth
method wraps PHP's str_pad
function, padding both sides of a string with another string until the final string reaches a desired length:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $padded = Str::padBoth('James', 10, '_'); // '__James___' $padded = Str::padBoth('James', 10); // ' James '
Str::padLeft()
The Str::padLeft
method wraps PHP's str_pad
function, padding the left side of a string with another string until the final string reaches a desired length:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $padded = Str::padLeft('James', 10, '-='); // '-=-=-James' $padded = Str::padLeft('James', 10); // ' James'
Str::padRight()
The Str::padRight
method wraps PHP's str_pad
function, padding the right side of a string with another string until the final string reaches a desired length:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $padded = Str::padRight('James', 10, '-'); // 'James-----' $padded = Str::padRight('James', 10); // 'James '
Str::password()
The Str::password
method may be used to generate a secure, random password of a given length. The password will consist of a combination of letters, numbers, symbols, and spaces. By default, passwords are 32 characters long:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $password = Str::password(); // 'EbJo2vE-AS:U,$%_gkrV4n,q~1xy/-_4' $password = Str::password(12); // 'qwuar>#V|i]N'
Str::plural()
The Str::plural
method converts a singular word string to its plural form. This function supports any of the languages support by Laravel's pluralizer:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $plural = Str::plural('car'); // cars $plural = Str::plural('child'); // children
You may provide an integer as a second argument to the function to retrieve the singular or plural form of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $plural = Str::plural('child', 2); // children $singular = Str::plural('child', 1); // child
Str::pluralStudly()
The Str::pluralStudly
method converts a singular word string formatted in studly caps case to its plural form. This function supports any of the languages support by Laravel's pluralizer:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $plural = Str::pluralStudly('VerifiedHuman'); // VerifiedHumans $plural = Str::pluralStudly('UserFeedback'); // UserFeedback
You may provide an integer as a second argument to the function to retrieve the singular or plural form of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $plural = Str::pluralStudly('VerifiedHuman', 2); // VerifiedHumans $singular = Str::pluralStudly('VerifiedHuman', 1); // VerifiedHuman
Str::position()
The Str::position
method returns the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string. If the substring does not exist in the given string, false
is returned:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $position = Str::position('Hello, World!', 'Hello'); // 0 $position = Str::position('Hello, World!', 'W'); // 7
Str::random()
The Str::random
method generates a random string of the specified length. This function uses PHP's random_bytes
function:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $random = Str::random(40);
During testing, it may be useful to "fake" the value that is returned by the Str::random
method. To accomplish this, you may use the createRandomStringsUsing
method:
Str::createRandomStringsUsing(function () { return 'fake-random-string';});
To instruct the random
method to return to generating random strings normally, you may invoke the createRandomStringsNormally
method:
Str::createRandomStringsNormally();
Str::remove()
The Str::remove
method removes the given value or array of values from the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'; $removed = Str::remove('e', $string); // Ptr Pipr pickd a pck of pickld ppprs.
You may also pass false
as a third argument to the remove
method to ignore case when removing strings.
Str::repeat()
The Str::repeat
method repeats the given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = 'a'; $repeat = Str::repeat($string, 5); // aaaaa
Str::replace()
The Str::replace
method replaces a given string within the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = 'Laravel 10.x'; $replaced = Str::replace('10.x', '11.x', $string); // Laravel 11.x
The replace
method also accepts a caseSensitive
argument. By default, the replace
method is case sensitive:
Str::replace('Framework', 'Laravel', caseSensitive: false);
Str::replaceArray()
The Str::replaceArray
method replaces a given value in the string sequentially using an array:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = 'The event will take place between ? and ?'; $replaced = Str::replaceArray('?', ['8:30', '9:00'], $string); // The event will take place between 8:30 and 9:00
Str::replaceFirst()
The Str::replaceFirst
method replaces the first occurrence of a given value in a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::replaceFirst('the', 'a', 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'); // a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Str::replaceLast()
The Str::replaceLast
method replaces the last occurrence of a given value in a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::replaceLast('the', 'a', 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'); // the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog
Str::replaceMatches()
The Str::replaceMatches
method replaces all portions of a string matching a pattern with the given replacement string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::replaceMatches( pattern: '/[^A-Za-z0-9]++/', replace: '', subject: '(+1) 501-555-1000') // '15015551000'
The replaceMatches
method also accepts a closure that will be invoked with each portion of the string matching the given pattern, allowing you to perform the replacement logic within the closure and return the replaced value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::replaceMatches('/\d/', function (array $matches) { return '['.$matches[0].']';}, '123'); // '[1][2][3]'
Str::replaceStart()
The Str::replaceStart
method replaces the first occurrence of the given value only if the value appears at the start of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::replaceStart('Hello', 'Laravel', 'Hello World'); // Laravel World $replaced = Str::replaceStart('World', 'Laravel', 'Hello World'); // Hello World
Str::replaceEnd()
The Str::replaceEnd
method replaces the last occurrence of the given value only if the value appears at the end of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::replaceEnd('World', 'Laravel', 'Hello World'); // Hello Laravel $replaced = Str::replaceEnd('Hello', 'Laravel', 'Hello World'); // Hello World
Str::reverse()
The Str::reverse
method reverses the given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $reversed = Str::reverse('Hello World'); // dlroW olleH
Str::singular()
The Str::singular
method converts a string to its singular form. This function supports any of the languages support by Laravel's pluralizer:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $singular = Str::singular('cars'); // car $singular = Str::singular('children'); // child
Str::slug()
The Str::slug
method generates a URL friendly "slug" from the given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slug = Str::slug('Laravel 5 Framework', '-'); // laravel-5-framework
Str::snake()
The Str::snake
method converts the given string to snake_case
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::snake('fooBar'); // foo_bar $converted = Str::snake('fooBar', '-'); // foo-bar
Str::squish()
The Str::squish
method removes all extraneous white space from a string, including extraneous white space between words:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::squish(' laravel framework '); // laravel framework
Str::start()
The Str::start
method adds a single instance of the given value to a string if it does not already start with that value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $adjusted = Str::start('this/string', '/'); // /this/string $adjusted = Str::start('/this/string', '/'); // /this/string
Str::startsWith()
The Str::startsWith
method determines if the given string begins with the given value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::startsWith('This is my name', 'This'); // true
If an array of possible values is passed, the startsWith
method will return true
if the string begins with any of the given values:
$result = Str::startsWith('This is my name', ['This', 'That', 'There']); // true
Str::studly()
The Str::studly
method converts the given string to StudlyCase
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::studly('foo_bar'); // FooBar
Str::substr()
The Str::substr
method returns the portion of string specified by the start and length parameters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::substr('The Laravel Framework', 4, 7); // Laravel
Str::substrCount()
The Str::substrCount
method returns the number of occurrences of a given value in the given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $count = Str::substrCount('If you like ice cream, you will like snow cones.', 'like'); // 2
Str::substrReplace()
The Str::substrReplace
method replaces text within a portion of a string, starting at the position specified by the third argument and replacing the number of characters specified by the fourth argument. Passing 0
to the method's fourth argument will insert the string at the specified position without replacing any of the existing characters in the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::substrReplace('1300', ':', 2);// 13: $result = Str::substrReplace('1300', ':', 2, 0);// 13:00
Str::swap()
The Str::swap
method replaces multiple values in the given string using PHP's strtr
function:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::swap([ 'Tacos' => 'Burritos', 'great' => 'fantastic',], 'Tacos are great!'); // Burritos are fantastic!
Str::take()
The Str::take
method returns a specified number of characters from the beginning of a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $taken = Str::take('Build something amazing!', 5); // Build
Str::title()
The Str::title
method converts the given string to Title Case
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::title('a nice title uses the correct case'); // A Nice Title Uses The Correct Case
Str::toBase64()
The Str::toBase64
method converts the given string to Base64:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $base64 = Str::toBase64('Laravel'); // TGFyYXZlbA==
Str::toHtmlString()
The Str::toHtmlString
method converts the string instance to an instance of Illuminate\Support\HtmlString
, which may be displayed in Blade templates:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $htmlString = Str::of('Nuno Maduro')->toHtmlString();
Str::transliterate()
The Str::transliterate
method will attempt to convert a given string into its closest ASCII representation:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $email = Str::transliterate('ⓣⓔⓢⓣ@ⓛⓐⓡⓐⓥⓔⓛ.ⓒⓞⓜ'); // '[email protected]'
Str::trim()
The Str::trim
method strips whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of the given string. Unlike PHP's native trim
function, the Str::trim
method also removes unicode whitespace characters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::trim(' foo bar '); // 'foo bar'
Str::ltrim()
The Str::ltrim
method strips whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of the given string. Unlike PHP's native ltrim
function, the Str::ltrim
method also removes unicode whitespace characters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::ltrim(' foo bar '); // 'foo bar '
Str::rtrim()
The Str::rtrim
method strips whitespace (or other characters) from the end of the given string. Unlike PHP's native rtrim
function, the Str::rtrim
method also removes unicode whitespace characters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::rtrim(' foo bar '); // ' foo bar'
Str::ucfirst()
The Str::ucfirst
method returns the given string with the first character capitalized:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::ucfirst('foo bar'); // Foo bar
Str::ucsplit()
The Str::ucsplit
method splits the given string into an array by uppercase characters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $segments = Str::ucsplit('FooBar'); // [0 => 'Foo', 1 => 'Bar']
Str::upper()
The Str::upper
method converts the given string to uppercase:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::upper('laravel'); // LARAVEL
Str::ulid()
The Str::ulid
method generates a ULID, which is a compact, time-ordered unique identifier:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; return (string) Str::ulid(); // 01gd6r360bp37zj17nxb55yv40
If you would like to retrieve a Illuminate\Support\Carbon
date instance representing the date and time that a given ULID was created, you may use the createFromId
method provided by Laravel's Carbon integration:
use Illuminate\Support\Carbon;use Illuminate\Support\Str; $date = Carbon::createFromId((string) Str::ulid());
During testing, it may be useful to "fake" the value that is returned by the Str::ulid
method. To accomplish this, you may use the createUlidsUsing
method:
use Symfony\Component\Uid\Ulid; Str::createUlidsUsing(function () { return new Ulid('01HRDBNHHCKNW2AK4Z29SN82T9');});
To instruct the ulid
method to return to generating ULIDs normally, you may invoke the createUlidsNormally
method:
Str::createUlidsNormally();
Str::unwrap()
The Str::unwrap
method removes the specified strings from the beginning and end of a given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; Str::unwrap('-Laravel-', '-'); // Laravel Str::unwrap('{framework: "Laravel"}', '{', '}'); // framework: "Laravel"
Str::uuid()
The Str::uuid
method generates a UUID (version 4):
use Illuminate\Support\Str; return (string) Str::uuid();
During testing, it may be useful to "fake" the value that is returned by the Str::uuid
method. To accomplish this, you may use the createUuidsUsing
method:
use Ramsey\Uuid\Uuid; Str::createUuidsUsing(function () { return Uuid::fromString('eadbfeac-5258-45c2-bab7-ccb9b5ef74f9');});
To instruct the uuid
method to return to generating UUIDs normally, you may invoke the createUuidsNormally
method:
Str::createUuidsNormally();
Str::wordCount()
The Str::wordCount
method returns the number of words that a string contains:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; Str::wordCount('Hello, world!'); // 2
Str::wordWrap()
The Str::wordWrap
method wraps a string to a given number of characters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." Str::wordWrap($text, characters: 20, break: "<br />\n"); /*The quick brown fox<br />jumped over the lazy<br />dog.*/
Str::words()
The Str::words
method limits the number of words in a string. An additional string may be passed to this method via its third argument to specify which string should be appended to the end of the truncated string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; return Str::words('Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.', 3, ' >>>'); // Perfectly balanced, as >>>
Str::wrap()
The Str::wrap
method wraps the given string with an additional string or pair of strings:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; Str::wrap('Laravel', '"'); // "Laravel" Str::wrap('is', before: 'This ', after: ' Laravel!'); // This is Laravel!
str()
The str
function returns a new Illuminate\Support\Stringable
instance of the given string. This function is equivalent to the Str::of
method:
$string = str('Taylor')->append(' Otwell'); // 'Taylor Otwell'
If no argument is provided to the str
function, the function returns an instance of Illuminate\Support\Str
:
$snake = str()->snake('FooBar'); // 'foo_bar'
trans()
The trans
function translates the given translation key using your language files:
echo trans('messages.welcome');
If the specified translation key does not exist, the trans
function will return the given key. So, using the example above, the trans
function would return messages.welcome
if the translation key does not exist.
trans_choice()
The trans_choice
function translates the given translation key with inflection:
echo trans_choice('messages.notifications', $unreadCount);
If the specified translation key does not exist, the trans_choice
function will return the given key. So, using the example above, the trans_choice
function would return messages.notifications
if the translation key does not exist.
Fluent Strings
Fluent strings provide a more fluent, object-oriented interface for working with string values, allowing you to chain multiple string operations together using a more readable syntax compared to traditional string operations.
after
The after
method returns everything after the given value in a string. The entire string will be returned if the value does not exist within the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::of('This is my name')->after('This is'); // ' my name'
afterLast
The afterLast
method returns everything after the last occurrence of the given value in a string. The entire string will be returned if the value does not exist within the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::of('App\Http\Controllers\Controller')->afterLast('\\'); // 'Controller'
apa
The apa
method converts the given string to title case following the APA guidelines:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::of('a nice title uses the correct case')->apa(); // A Nice Title Uses the Correct Case
append
The append
method appends the given values to the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('Taylor')->append(' Otwell'); // 'Taylor Otwell'
ascii
The ascii
method will attempt to transliterate the string into an ASCII value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('ü')->ascii(); // 'u'
basename
The basename
method will return the trailing name component of the given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('/foo/bar/baz')->basename(); // 'baz'
If needed, you may provide an "extension" that will be removed from the trailing component:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('/foo/bar/baz.jpg')->basename('.jpg'); // 'baz'
before
The before
method returns everything before the given value in a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::of('This is my name')->before('my name'); // 'This is '
beforeLast
The beforeLast
method returns everything before the last occurrence of the given value in a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slice = Str::of('This is my name')->beforeLast('is'); // 'This '
between
The between
method returns the portion of a string between two values:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::of('This is my name')->between('This', 'name'); // ' is my '
betweenFirst
The betweenFirst
method returns the smallest possible portion of a string between two values:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::of('[a] bc [d]')->betweenFirst('[', ']'); // 'a'
camel
The camel
method converts the given string to camelCase
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::of('foo_bar')->camel(); // 'fooBar'
charAt
The charAt
method returns the character at the specified index. If the index is out of bounds, false
is returned:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $character = Str::of('This is my name.')->charAt(6); // 's'
classBasename
The classBasename
method returns the class name of the given class with the class's namespace removed:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $class = Str::of('Foo\Bar\Baz')->classBasename(); // 'Baz'
chopStart
The chopStart
method removes the first occurrence of the given value only if the value appears at the start of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $url = Str::of('https://laravel.com')->chopStart('https://'); // 'laravel.com'
You may also pass an array. If the string starts with any of the values in the array then that value will be removed from string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $url = Str::of('http://laravel.com')->chopStart(['https://', 'http://']); // 'laravel.com'
chopEnd
The chopEnd
method removes the last occurrence of the given value only if the value appears at the end of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $url = Str::of('https://laravel.com')->chopEnd('.com'); // 'https://laravel'
You may also pass an array. If the string ends with any of the values in the array then that value will be removed from string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $url = Str::of('http://laravel.com')->chopEnd(['.com', '.io']); // 'http://laravel'
contains
The contains
method determines if the given string contains the given value. By default this method is case sensitive:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $contains = Str::of('This is my name')->contains('my'); // true
You may also pass an array of values to determine if the given string contains any of the values in the array:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $contains = Str::of('This is my name')->contains(['my', 'foo']); // true
You can disable case sensitivity by setting the ignoreCase
argument to true
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $contains = Str::of('This is my name')->contains('MY', ignoreCase: true); // true
containsAll
The containsAll
method determines if the given string contains all of the values in the given array:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $containsAll = Str::of('This is my name')->containsAll(['my', 'name']); // true
You can disable case sensitivity by setting the ignoreCase
argument to true
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $containsAll = Str::of('This is my name')->containsAll(['MY', 'NAME'], ignoreCase: true); // true
deduplicate
The deduplicate
method replaces consecutive instances of a character with a single instance of that character in the given string. By default, the method deduplicates spaces:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('The Laravel Framework')->deduplicate(); // The Laravel Framework
You may specify a different character to deduplicate by passing it in as the second argument to the method:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('The---Laravel---Framework')->deduplicate('-'); // The-Laravel-Framework
dirname
The dirname
method returns the parent directory portion of the given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('/foo/bar/baz')->dirname(); // '/foo/bar'
If necessary, you may specify how many directory levels you wish to trim from the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('/foo/bar/baz')->dirname(2); // '/foo'
endsWith
The endsWith
method determines if the given string ends with the given value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('This is my name')->endsWith('name'); // true
You may also pass an array of values to determine if the given string ends with any of the values in the array:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('This is my name')->endsWith(['name', 'foo']); // true $result = Str::of('This is my name')->endsWith(['this', 'foo']); // false
exactly
The exactly
method determines if the given string is an exact match with another string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('Laravel')->exactly('Laravel'); // true
excerpt
The excerpt
method extracts an excerpt from the string that matches the first instance of a phrase within that string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $excerpt = Str::of('This is my name')->excerpt('my', [ 'radius' => 3]); // '...is my na...'
The radius
option, which defaults to 100
, allows you to define the number of characters that should appear on each side of the truncated string.
In addition, you may use the omission
option to change the string that will be prepended and appended to the truncated string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $excerpt = Str::of('This is my name')->excerpt('name', [ 'radius' => 3, 'omission' => '(...) ']); // '(...) my name'
explode
The explode
method splits the string by the given delimiter and returns a collection containing each section of the split string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $collection = Str::of('foo bar baz')->explode(' '); // collect(['foo', 'bar', 'baz'])
finish
The finish
method adds a single instance of the given value to a string if it does not already end with that value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $adjusted = Str::of('this/string')->finish('/'); // this/string/ $adjusted = Str::of('this/string/')->finish('/'); // this/string/
headline
The headline
method will convert strings delimited by casing, hyphens, or underscores into a space delimited string with each word's first letter capitalized:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $headline = Str::of('taylor_otwell')->headline(); // Taylor Otwell $headline = Str::of('EmailNotificationSent')->headline(); // Email Notification Sent
inlineMarkdown
The inlineMarkdown
method converts GitHub flavored Markdown into inline HTML using CommonMark. However, unlike the markdown
method, it does not wrap all generated HTML in a block-level element:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $html = Str::of('**Laravel**')->inlineMarkdown(); // <strong>Laravel</strong>
Markdown Security
By default, Markdown supports raw HTML, which will expose Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities when used with raw user input. As per the CommonMark Security documentation, you may use the html_input
option to either escape or strip raw HTML, and the allow_unsafe_links
option to specify whether to allow unsafe links. If you need to allow some raw HTML, you should pass your compiled Markdown through an HTML Purifier:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; Str::of('Inject: <script>alert("Hello XSS!");</script>')->inlineMarkdown([ 'html_input' => 'strip', 'allow_unsafe_links' => false,]); // Inject: alert("Hello XSS!");
is
The is
method determines if a given string matches a given pattern. Asterisks may be used as wildcard values
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $matches = Str::of('foobar')->is('foo*'); // true $matches = Str::of('foobar')->is('baz*'); // false
isAscii
The isAscii
method determines if a given string is an ASCII string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('Taylor')->isAscii(); // true $result = Str::of('ü')->isAscii(); // false
isEmpty
The isEmpty
method determines if the given string is empty:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of(' ')->trim()->isEmpty(); // true $result = Str::of('Laravel')->trim()->isEmpty(); // false
isNotEmpty
The isNotEmpty
method determines if the given string is not empty:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of(' ')->trim()->isNotEmpty(); // false $result = Str::of('Laravel')->trim()->isNotEmpty(); // true
isJson
The isJson
method determines if a given string is valid JSON:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('[1,2,3]')->isJson(); // true $result = Str::of('{"first": "John", "last": "Doe"}')->isJson(); // true $result = Str::of('{first: "John", last: "Doe"}')->isJson(); // false
isUlid
The isUlid
method determines if a given string is a ULID:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('01gd6r360bp37zj17nxb55yv40')->isUlid(); // true $result = Str::of('Taylor')->isUlid(); // false
isUrl
The isUrl
method determines if a given string is a URL:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('http://example.com')->isUrl(); // true $result = Str::of('Taylor')->isUrl(); // false
The isUrl
method considers a wide range of protocols as valid. However, you may specify the protocols that should be considered valid by providing them to the isUrl
method:
$result = Str::of('http://example.com')->isUrl(['http', 'https']);
isUuid
The isUuid
method determines if a given string is a UUID:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('5ace9ab9-e9cf-4ec6-a19d-5881212a452c')->isUuid(); // true $result = Str::of('Taylor')->isUuid(); // false
kebab
The kebab
method converts the given string to kebab-case
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::of('fooBar')->kebab(); // foo-bar
lcfirst
The lcfirst
method returns the given string with the first character lowercased:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('Foo Bar')->lcfirst(); // foo Bar
length
The length
method returns the length of the given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $length = Str::of('Laravel')->length(); // 7
limit
The limit
method truncates the given string to the specified length:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $truncated = Str::of('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog')->limit(20); // The quick brown fox...
You may also pass a second argument to change the string that will be appended to the end of the truncated string:
$truncated = Str::of('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog')->limit(20, ' (...)'); // The quick brown fox (...)
If you would like to preserve complete words when truncating the string, you may utilize the preserveWords
argument. When this argument is true
, the string will be truncated to the nearest complete word boundary:
$truncated = Str::of('The quick brown fox')->limit(12, preserveWords: true); // The quick...
lower
The lower
method converts the given string to lowercase:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('LARAVEL')->lower(); // 'laravel'
markdown
The markdown
method converts GitHub flavored Markdown into HTML:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $html = Str::of('# Laravel')->markdown(); // <h1>Laravel</h1> $html = Str::of('# Taylor <b>Otwell</b>')->markdown([ 'html_input' => 'strip',]); // <h1>Taylor Otwell</h1>
Markdown Security
By default, Markdown supports raw HTML, which will expose Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities when used with raw user input. As per the CommonMark Security documentation, you may use the html_input
option to either escape or strip raw HTML, and the allow_unsafe_links
option to specify whether to allow unsafe links. If you need to allow some raw HTML, you should pass your compiled Markdown through an HTML Purifier:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; Str::of('Inject: <script>alert("Hello XSS!");</script>')->markdown([ 'html_input' => 'strip', 'allow_unsafe_links' => false,]); // <p>Inject: alert("Hello XSS!");</p>
mask
The mask
method masks a portion of a string with a repeated character, and may be used to obfuscate segments of strings such as email addresses and phone numbers:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; // tay***************
If needed, you may provide negative numbers as the third or fourth argument to the mask
method, which will instruct the method to begin masking at the given distance from the end of the string:
// tay***@example.com // tayl**********.com
match
The match
method will return the portion of a string that matches a given regular expression pattern:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('foo bar')->match('/bar/'); // 'bar' $result = Str::of('foo bar')->match('/foo (.*)/'); // 'bar'
matchAll
The matchAll
method will return a collection containing the portions of a string that match a given regular expression pattern:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('bar foo bar')->matchAll('/bar/'); // collect(['bar', 'bar'])
If you specify a matching group within the expression, Laravel will return a collection of the first matching group's matches:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('bar fun bar fly')->matchAll('/f(\w*)/'); // collect(['un', 'ly']);
If no matches are found, an empty collection will be returned.
isMatch
The isMatch
method will return true
if the string matches a given regular expression:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('foo bar')->isMatch('/foo (.*)/'); // true $result = Str::of('laravel')->isMatch('/foo (.*)/'); // false
newLine
The newLine
method appends an "end of line" character to a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $padded = Str::of('Laravel')->newLine()->append('Framework'); // 'Laravel// Framework'
padBoth
The padBoth
method wraps PHP's str_pad
function, padding both sides of a string with another string until the final string reaches the desired length:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $padded = Str::of('James')->padBoth(10, '_'); // '__James___' $padded = Str::of('James')->padBoth(10); // ' James '
padLeft
The padLeft
method wraps PHP's str_pad
function, padding the left side of a string with another string until the final string reaches the desired length:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $padded = Str::of('James')->padLeft(10, '-='); // '-=-=-James' $padded = Str::of('James')->padLeft(10); // ' James'
padRight
The padRight
method wraps PHP's str_pad
function, padding the right side of a string with another string until the final string reaches the desired length:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $padded = Str::of('James')->padRight(10, '-'); // 'James-----' $padded = Str::of('James')->padRight(10); // 'James '
pipe
The pipe
method allows you to transform the string by passing its current value to the given callable:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $hash = Str::of('Laravel')->pipe('md5')->prepend('Checksum: '); // 'Checksum: a5c95b86291ea299fcbe64458ed12702' $closure = Str::of('foo')->pipe(function (Stringable $str) { return 'bar';}); // 'bar'
plural
The plural
method converts a singular word string to its plural form. This function supports any of the languages support by Laravel's pluralizer:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $plural = Str::of('car')->plural(); // cars $plural = Str::of('child')->plural(); // children
You may provide an integer as a second argument to the function to retrieve the singular or plural form of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $plural = Str::of('child')->plural(2); // children $plural = Str::of('child')->plural(1); // child
position
The position
method returns the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string. If the substring does not exist within the string, false
is returned:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $position = Str::of('Hello, World!')->position('Hello'); // 0 $position = Str::of('Hello, World!')->position('W'); // 7
prepend
The prepend
method prepends the given values onto the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('Framework')->prepend('Laravel '); // Laravel Framework
remove
The remove
method removes the given value or array of values from the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('Arkansas is quite beautiful!')->remove('quite'); // Arkansas is beautiful!
You may also pass false
as a second parameter to ignore case when removing strings.
repeat
The repeat
method repeats the given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $repeated = Str::of('a')->repeat(5); // aaaaa
replace
The replace
method replaces a given string within the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::of('Laravel 6.x')->replace('6.x', '7.x'); // Laravel 7.x
The replace
method also accepts a caseSensitive
argument. By default, the replace
method is case sensitive:
$replaced = Str::of('macOS 13.x')->replace( 'macOS', 'iOS', caseSensitive: false);
replaceArray
The replaceArray
method replaces a given value in the string sequentially using an array:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = 'The event will take place between ? and ?'; $replaced = Str::of($string)->replaceArray('?', ['8:30', '9:00']); // The event will take place between 8:30 and 9:00
replaceFirst
The replaceFirst
method replaces the first occurrence of a given value in a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::of('the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog')->replaceFirst('the', 'a'); // a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
replaceLast
The replaceLast
method replaces the last occurrence of a given value in a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::of('the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog')->replaceLast('the', 'a'); // the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog
replaceMatches
The replaceMatches
method replaces all portions of a string matching a pattern with the given replacement string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::of('(+1) 501-555-1000')->replaceMatches('/[^A-Za-z0-9]++/', '') // '15015551000'
The replaceMatches
method also accepts a closure that will be invoked with each portion of the string matching the given pattern, allowing you to perform the replacement logic within the closure and return the replaced value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::of('123')->replaceMatches('/\d/', function (array $matches) { return '['.$matches[0].']';}); // '[1][2][3]'
replaceStart
The replaceStart
method replaces the first occurrence of the given value only if the value appears at the start of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::of('Hello World')->replaceStart('Hello', 'Laravel'); // Laravel World $replaced = Str::of('Hello World')->replaceStart('World', 'Laravel'); // Hello World
replaceEnd
The replaceEnd
method replaces the last occurrence of the given value only if the value appears at the end of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $replaced = Str::of('Hello World')->replaceEnd('World', 'Laravel'); // Hello Laravel $replaced = Str::of('Hello World')->replaceEnd('Hello', 'Laravel'); // Hello World
scan
The scan
method parses input from a string into a collection according to a format supported by the sscanf
PHP function:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $collection = Str::of('filename.jpg')->scan('%[^.].%s'); // collect(['filename', 'jpg'])
singular
The singular
method converts a string to its singular form. This function supports any of the languages support by Laravel's pluralizer:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $singular = Str::of('cars')->singular(); // car $singular = Str::of('children')->singular(); // child
slug
The slug
method generates a URL friendly "slug" from the given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $slug = Str::of('Laravel Framework')->slug('-'); // laravel-framework
snake
The snake
method converts the given string to snake_case
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::of('fooBar')->snake(); // foo_bar
split
The split
method splits a string into a collection using a regular expression:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $segments = Str::of('one, two, three')->split('/[\s,]+/'); // collect(["one", "two", "three"])
squish
The squish
method removes all extraneous white space from a string, including extraneous white space between words:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of(' laravel framework ')->squish(); // laravel framework
start
The start
method adds a single instance of the given value to a string if it does not already start with that value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $adjusted = Str::of('this/string')->start('/'); // /this/string $adjusted = Str::of('/this/string')->start('/'); // /this/string
startsWith
The startsWith
method determines if the given string begins with the given value:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('This is my name')->startsWith('This'); // true
stripTags
The stripTags
method removes all HTML and PHP tags from a string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('<a href="https://laravel.com">Taylor <b>Otwell</b></a>')->stripTags(); // Taylor Otwell $result = Str::of('<a href="https://laravel.com">Taylor <b>Otwell</b></a>')->stripTags('<b>'); // Taylor <b>Otwell</b>
studly
The studly
method converts the given string to StudlyCase
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::of('foo_bar')->studly(); // FooBar
substr
The substr
method returns the portion of the string specified by the given start and length parameters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('Laravel Framework')->substr(8); // Framework $string = Str::of('Laravel Framework')->substr(8, 5); // Frame
substrReplace
The substrReplace
method replaces text within a portion of a string, starting at the position specified by the second argument and replacing the number of characters specified by the third argument. Passing 0
to the method's third argument will insert the string at the specified position without replacing any of the existing characters in the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('1300')->substrReplace(':', 2); // 13: $string = Str::of('The Framework')->substrReplace(' Laravel', 3, 0); // The Laravel Framework
swap
The swap
method replaces multiple values in the string using PHP's strtr
function:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('Tacos are great!') ->swap([ 'Tacos' => 'Burritos', 'great' => 'fantastic', ]); // Burritos are fantastic!
take
The take
method returns a specified number of characters from the beginning of the string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $taken = Str::of('Build something amazing!')->take(5); // Build
tap
The tap
method passes the string to the given closure, allowing you to examine and interact with the string while not affecting the string itself. The original string is returned by the tap
method regardless of what is returned by the closure:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('Laravel') ->append(' Framework') ->tap(function (Stringable $string) { dump('String after append: '.$string); }) ->upper(); // LARAVEL FRAMEWORK
test
The test
method determines if a string matches the given regular expression pattern:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $result = Str::of('Laravel Framework')->test('/Laravel/'); // true
title
The title
method converts the given string to Title Case
:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $converted = Str::of('a nice title uses the correct case')->title(); // A Nice Title Uses The Correct Case
toBase64()
The toBase64
method converts the given string to Base64:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $base64 = Str::of('Laravel')->toBase64(); // TGFyYXZlbA==
transliterate
The transliterate
method will attempt to convert a given string into its closest ASCII representation:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $email = Str::of('ⓣⓔⓢⓣ@ⓛⓐⓡⓐⓥⓔⓛ.ⓒⓞⓜ')->transliterate() // '[email protected]'
trim
The trim
method trims the given string. Unlike PHP's native trim
function, Laravel's trim
method also removes unicode whitespace characters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of(' Laravel ')->trim(); // 'Laravel' $string = Str::of('/Laravel/')->trim('/'); // 'Laravel'
ltrim
The ltrim
method trims the left side of the string. Unlike PHP's native ltrim
function, Laravel's ltrim
method also removes unicode whitespace characters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of(' Laravel ')->ltrim(); // 'Laravel ' $string = Str::of('/Laravel/')->ltrim('/'); // 'Laravel/'
rtrim
The rtrim
method trims the right side of the given string. Unlike PHP's native rtrim
function, Laravel's rtrim
method also removes unicode whitespace characters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of(' Laravel ')->rtrim(); // ' Laravel' $string = Str::of('/Laravel/')->rtrim('/'); // '/Laravel'
ucfirst
The ucfirst
method returns the given string with the first character capitalized:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('foo bar')->ucfirst(); // Foo bar
ucsplit
The ucsplit
method splits the given string into a collection by uppercase characters:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('Foo Bar')->ucsplit(); // collect(['Foo', 'Bar'])
unwrap
The unwrap
method removes the specified strings from the beginning and end of a given string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; Str::of('-Laravel-')->unwrap('-'); // Laravel Str::of('{framework: "Laravel"}')->unwrap('{', '}'); // framework: "Laravel"
upper
The upper
method converts the given string to uppercase:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $adjusted = Str::of('laravel')->upper(); // LARAVEL
when
The when
method invokes the given closure if a given condition is true
. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('Taylor') ->when(true, function (Stringable $string) { return $string->append(' Otwell'); }); // 'Taylor Otwell'
If necessary, you may pass another closure as the third parameter to the when
method. This closure will execute if the condition parameter evaluates to false
.
whenContains
The whenContains
method invokes the given closure if the string contains the given value. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('tony stark') ->whenContains('tony', function (Stringable $string) { return $string->title(); }); // 'Tony Stark'
If necessary, you may pass another closure as the third parameter to the when
method. This closure will execute if the string does not contain the given value.
You may also pass an array of values to determine if the given string contains any of the values in the array:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('tony stark') ->whenContains(['tony', 'hulk'], function (Stringable $string) { return $string->title(); }); // Tony Stark
whenContainsAll
The whenContainsAll
method invokes the given closure if the string contains all of the given sub-strings. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('tony stark') ->whenContainsAll(['tony', 'stark'], function (Stringable $string) { return $string->title(); }); // 'Tony Stark'
If necessary, you may pass another closure as the third parameter to the when
method. This closure will execute if the condition parameter evaluates to false
.
whenEmpty
The whenEmpty
method invokes the given closure if the string is empty. If the closure returns a value, that value will also be returned by the whenEmpty
method. If the closure does not return a value, the fluent string instance will be returned:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of(' ')->whenEmpty(function (Stringable $string) { return $string->trim()->prepend('Laravel');}); // 'Laravel'
whenNotEmpty
The whenNotEmpty
method invokes the given closure if the string is not empty. If the closure returns a value, that value will also be returned by the whenNotEmpty
method. If the closure does not return a value, the fluent string instance will be returned:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('Framework')->whenNotEmpty(function (Stringable $string) { return $string->prepend('Laravel ');}); // 'Laravel Framework'
whenStartsWith
The whenStartsWith
method invokes the given closure if the string starts with the given sub-string. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('disney world')->whenStartsWith('disney', function (Stringable $string) { return $string->title();}); // 'Disney World'
whenEndsWith
The whenEndsWith
method invokes the given closure if the string ends with the given sub-string. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('disney world')->whenEndsWith('world', function (Stringable $string) { return $string->title();}); // 'Disney World'
whenExactly
The whenExactly
method invokes the given closure if the string exactly matches the given string. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('laravel')->whenExactly('laravel', function (Stringable $string) { return $string->title();}); // 'Laravel'
whenNotExactly
The whenNotExactly
method invokes the given closure if the string does not exactly match the given string. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('framework')->whenNotExactly('laravel', function (Stringable $string) { return $string->title();}); // 'Framework'
whenIs
The whenIs
method invokes the given closure if the string matches a given pattern. Asterisks may be used as wildcard values. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('foo/bar')->whenIs('foo/*', function (Stringable $string) { return $string->append('/baz');}); // 'foo/bar/baz'
whenIsAscii
The whenIsAscii
method invokes the given closure if the string is 7 bit ASCII. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('laravel')->whenIsAscii(function (Stringable $string) { return $string->title();}); // 'Laravel'
whenIsUlid
The whenIsUlid
method invokes the given closure if the string is a valid ULID. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('01gd6r360bp37zj17nxb55yv40')->whenIsUlid(function (Stringable $string) { return $string->substr(0, 8);}); // '01gd6r36'
whenIsUuid
The whenIsUuid
method invokes the given closure if the string is a valid UUID. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('a0a2a2d2-0b87-4a18-83f2-2529882be2de')->whenIsUuid(function (Stringable $string) { return $string->substr(0, 8);}); // 'a0a2a2d2'
whenTest
The whenTest
method invokes the given closure if the string matches the given regular expression. The closure will receive the fluent string instance:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;use Illuminate\Support\Stringable; $string = Str::of('laravel framework')->whenTest('/laravel/', function (Stringable $string) { return $string->title();}); // 'Laravel Framework'
wordCount
The wordCount
method returns the number of words that a string contains:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; Str::of('Hello, world!')->wordCount(); // 2
words
The words
method limits the number of words in a string. If necessary, you may specify an additional string that will be appended to the truncated string:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; $string = Str::of('Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.')->words(3, ' >>>'); // Perfectly balanced, as >>>
wrap
The wrap
method wraps the given string with an additional string or pair of strings:
use Illuminate\Support\Str; Str::of('Laravel')->wrap('"'); // "Laravel" Str::is('is')->wrap(before: 'This ', after: ' Laravel!'); // This is Laravel!