Tag Archives: freemarker
Equivalent of parseInt() in Freemarker
Programming languages have methods to cast integers to strings and strings to integers, but usually is had to find equivalents to parseInt(), a Javascript function that basically removes all non-numeric characters from a string and returns the resulting integer. Today, while working on a Freemarker template, I had to convert strings like “40 ms.” and [...]
Regular expressions in Freemarker
At work we have our custom CMS (SWITCH) which uses Freemarker to create template-based pages. So far I had never needed this, but today I had to figure out how to strip all html tags from a text block. Well, nothing like a good RegEx for that :) Trimming an HTML block to 100 characters [...]