Less - String Functions

Description

Less supports some of the string functions as listed below:

• escape
• e
• % format
• replace
  

The following table describes above string functions along with description.

S.N.	Types & Description	Example
1	Escape It encodes a string or information by using URL encoding on special characters. You could not encode some characters such as , , / , ? , @ , & , + , ~ , ! , $ , ' and some characters you can encode such as \ , # , ^ , ( , ) , { , } , : , > , < , ] , [ and =.	escape("Hello!! welcome to Tutorialspoint!") It outputs escaped string as: Hello%21%21%20welcome%20to%20Tutorialspoint%21
2	e It is a string function which uses string as parameter and returns the information without quotes. It is a CSS escaping which uses ~"some content" escaped values and numbers as parameters.	filter: e("Hello!! welcome to Tutorialspoint!"); It outputs escaped string as: filter: Hello!! welcome to Tutorialspoint!;
3	% format This function formats a string. It can be written with the following format: %(string, arguments ...)	format-a-d: %("myvalues: %a myfile: %d", 2 + 3, "mydir/less_demo.less"); It outputs the formatted string as: format-a-d: "myvalues: 5 myfile: "mydir/less_demo.less"";
4	replace It is used to replace the text within a string. It uses some parameters: string: It searches the string and replace in. pattern: It searches the regular expression pattern. replacement: It replaces the string that matches the pattern. flags: These are optional regular expression flags.	replace("Welcome, val?", "val\?", "to Tutorialspoint!"); It replaces the string as: "Welcome, to Tutorialspoint!"