_{Official ZPE/YASS documentation}Utilities module

Module description

Provides general-purpose utilities, including text comparison, formatting and external-process benchmarking. Use Utilities::benchmark to compare executable commands; use ZPE::benchmark when measuring a YASS function inside the current process.

Availability: ZPE 1.14.11 is the first version to support the Utilities module.

Module functions

The following is a list of all functions available in this module.

• beautify [1.7.5+]

  Manual entry not found for function: beautify.

  This functionality was originally available as a predefined function from ZPE 1.7.5, before it became a function of the Utilities module.

• benchmark [1.14.11+]

  Benchmarks one or more external command lists and returns process timing statistics in milliseconds.

• diff [1.14.9+]

  Compares two strings line by line, or the UTF-8 contents of two files when <code>files</code> is <code class="keyword">true</code>.

• generate_alphabet [1.4.4+]

  Manual entry not found for function: generate_alphabet.

• generate_random_string [1.9.2+]

  Manual entry not found for function: generate_random_string.

• speak [1.8.2+]

  Attempts to speak the text, <em>contents</em> given to it.

  This functionality was originally available as a predefined function from ZPE 1.8.2, before it became a function of the Utilities module.

• string_to_list [1.9.13+]

  Converts a string, <em>str</em>, into a list, character by character.