base.StringBuffer methods

Table 1. Class methods
Name Description 
base.StringBuffer.create()
  RETURNS base.StringBuffer
 Create a string buffer object.
Table 2. Object methods
Name Description 
append(
   str STRING )
 Append a string at the end of the current string. 
clear()
 Clear the string buffer. 
equals(
   str STRING )
  RETURNS BOOLEAN
 Compare strings (case sensitive). 
equalsIgnoreCase(
   str STRING )
  RETURNS BOOLEAN
 Compare strings (case insensitive) 
getCharAt(
   index INTEGER )
  RETURNS STRING
 Return the character at a specified position. 
getIndexOf(
   part STRING,
   start INTEGER )
  RETURNS INTEGER
 Return the position of a substring. 
getLength()
  RETURNS INTEGER
 Return the length of a string. 
insertAt(
   index INTEGER,
   str STRING )
 Insert a string at a given position. 
replace(
   oldStr STRING,
   newStr STRING,
   occurrences INTEGER )
 Replace one string with another. 
replaceAt(
   index INTEGER,
   length INTEGER,
   str STRING )
 Replace part of a string with another string. 
subString(
   startIndex INTEGER,
   endIndex INTEGER )
  RETURNS STRING
 Return the substring at the specified position. 
toLowerCase()
 Converts the string in the buffer to lower case. 
toUpperCase()
 Converts the string in the buffer to upper case. 
toString()
  RETURNS STRING
 Create a STRING from the string buffer. 
trim()
 Remove leading and trailing blank space (ASCII 32) characters. 
trimWhiteSpace()
 Remove leading and trailing whitespace characters. 
trimLeft()
 Removes leading blank space (ASCII 32) characters. 
trimLeftWhiteSpace()
 Removes leading whitespace characters. 
trimRight()
 Removes trailing blank space (ASCII 32) characters. 
trimRightWhiteSpace()
 Removes trailing whitespace characters.