collapse

collapse(text: String): Array<String>

Collapses the string into substrings of equal characters.

Each substring contains a single character or identical characters that are adjacent to one another in the input string. Empty spaces are treated as characters.

Introduced in DataWeave version 2.4.0.

Parameters

Name Description

Name	Description
`text`	The string to collapse.

text

The string to collapse.

Example

This example shows how the function collapses characters. Notice that the empty space (" ") is treated as a character.

Source

%dw 2.0
import collapse from dw::core::Strings
output application/json
---
collapse("a  b babb a")

Output

["a", "  ", "b", " ", "b", "a", "bb", " ", "a"]

collapse(text: Null): Null

Helper function that enables collapse to work with a null value.

Introduced in DataWeave version 2.4.0.