String and text manipulation

The string manipulation functions are found in the Illuminate\Support namespace and are callable on the Str object.

Most of the functions also have shorter snake_case aliases. For example, the Str::endsWith() method is identical to the global ends_with() function. We are free to use whichever one we prefer in our application.

Boolean functions

The following functions return the true or false values:

• The is method checks whether a value matches a pattern. The asterisk can be used as a wildcard character as shown here:

  Str::is('projects/*', 'projects/php/'); // Returns true

• The contains method, as shown in the following code, checks whether a string contains a given substring:

  Str::contains('Getting Started With Laravel', 'Python');
  // returns false

• The startsWith and endsWith methods, as shown in the following code, check whether a string starts or ends with one or more substrings:

  Str::startsWith('.gitignore', '...