pxt-core-own/common-docs/reference/text.md

Microsoft MakeCode, also known as Programming Experience Toolkit (PXT), provides Blocks / JavaScript tools and editors

# Text

Functions to combine, split, and search text strings.

```cards
"".charAt(0);
"".compare("");
"".substr(0, 0);
parseFloat("");
parseInt("");
```

## See also

[char at](/reference/text/char-at), [compare](/reference/text/compare),
[substr](/reference/text/substr), [parse int](/reference/text/parse-int), 
[parse float](/reference/text/parse-float)