User:VasilievVV/Lua strings

Members of unicode module (all return false if a string is invalid UTF-8 sequence):

• unicode.len(string) — returns length or false if it is invalid UTF-8 sequence
• unicode.pos(haystack, needle, offset) — returns position of needle in haystack, starting search with offset. Returns offset of the substring, -1 if it is not found.
• unicode.at(string, pos) — returns the character at the position pos
• unicode.sub(string, start, len) — returns the string from start at most start + len.
• unicode.uc(string) — converts all letters in the string to uppercase.
• unicode.ucfirst(string) — converts the first symbol of the string to uppercase, if it is a letter.
• unicode.lc(string) — converts all the symbols in the string to lowercase
• unicode.replace(string, from, to) — replaces all the occurrences of from to to in string.
• unicode.trim(string) — removes all whitespace from the beginning and the end of the string and returns the result
• unicode.code(string) — returns the Unicode code of the first character of the string
• unicode.split(string, delimiter) — splits the string into an array of items which were separated in the original by delimiter
• unicode.join(table, delimiter) — joins the table elements, using delimiter as a glue between table items