# Text

## Text Value

### String

The most basic but most often used text block is below. You can type into this text block, or leave it empty.

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### Join

Often, you'll want to join text values together with the `join` block:

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### Newline

You can use the `newline` block to add a line break in a piece of text.

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## Reformat Text

Use these blocks to change the content or formatting of your text. These blocks will return the reformatted text.

### Set case

Set a piece of text to the selected case:

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### Trim Spaces

Trim blank spaces from the left side, the right side, or both sides of a string of text:

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### Replace all

Find and replace all occurrences of a substring within a string.

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## Analyze Text

### Is Empty

The block below tests whether the text value is empty. Returns `true` or `false`

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### Get letter

Returns the character at the specified position, where 1 is the first letter of the string.\
Returns the empty string if the length of text given is less than the position specified.

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### Get substring

Returns the substring at the specified start and end position, where 1 is the first letter of the string.\
Returns the empty string if the length of text given is less than the starting position specified.

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### Find first/last occurrence

Returns the starting position of a substring within a string, where 1 is the first letter of the string.\
Returns 0 if the string does not contain the substring.

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### Does string contain

Checks if a string contains a substring. Returns `true` or `false`. 

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### Get length of string

Returns length of a given string

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