Built-in functions and helpers

Debug

debug.dump generates a representation of the object. For example:

{{debug.dump model}}

Humanizr

Textrude provides all the methods of the Humanizr library via the humanizr namespace. These are particularly useful for enforcing naming-conventions in generated code. For example

The standard C naming for camel-cased strings looks like...

{{"CamelCasedFunctionName" | humanizr.underscore}}

Humanizr has many other useful functions - see the home page for more information.

See the humanizr.txtproj project in the examples folder for more examples

Misc

misc.new_guid generates a new GUID

See the misc.txtproj project in the examples folder for more examples

TimeComparison

The timecomparison class offers flexible time recognition and comparison operations based on the Microsoft Recognizers package.

Examples of recognisable input are:

• "christmas day, 1991"
• "yesterday"
• "18 days ago"
• "3rd Mar"
• "Nov 10, 2010"
• "186353" (interpreted as seconds since the Unix epoch)

The timecomparison.before and timecomparison.after functions can be used to compare times. E.g. "5 days ago" | timecomparison.after "4 jan 2021"

See the the `11_timerange" example in the examples folder for further information.