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Text Helper
What is Text Helper Entity
The Text Helper entity is used for the manipulation of text or string data. It is usually used for operations like dynamically building a URL, encoding or decoding a string, parsing a URL, and splitting the text into blocks with a separator.
Built-in operations in Text Helper Entity
This topic describes the list of operations that can be performed on a Text Helper entity in the Backflipt platform.
| Text Helper Operation | Description |
|---|---|
| Encode/Decode | It can be used to encode or decode the given input data. Encoding is used for the secure transmission of data, while decoding is the process of transforming encoded data back to its original form. |
| Split | It can be used to break the string into separate substrings based on the delimiter character specified and return a list of substrings. |
| URL Encode/Decode | It can be used to encode or decode the whole URL. |
| Parse URL | It can be used to break the URL down into its constituent parts, such as the protocol, host, host name, port, pathname, and search parameters, for easy understanding. |
| Replace | It can be used to replace the substring within the string with a new substring. |
| Compile Template with Data | It can be used to combine a template with actual data to generate a finalized output. |
| Domain For Email | It can be used to return the email domain. The email domain is the part of the email address that comes after the @ symbol. |
| Lowercase | It can be used to convert the given input text into lowercase. |
| Upper Case | It can be used to convert the given input text into uppercase. |
| Contains | It can be used to return a true or false output if the text contains the order or characters that the user provides. |
| Length | It can be used to return the length of the text, which includes the number of characters in the text, including white spaces. |
| XML to JSON | It can be used to convert the XML data to JSON. |
| Email validation | It can be used to check if the provided text is in a valid email format. |
| Generate Random Password | It can be used to generate a random password of the specified length. |
| Append | It can be used to add the second string/text to the end of the first text. |
| Generate Random OTP | It can be used to generate a random OTP. |
| Generate UUID | It can be used to create a UUID or a unique identifier from the provided text, or generate a random unique identifier. |