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Sitecore StringUtil Class - Part 1

While playing around with the Reflector today,  I chanced about the StringUtil class inside the Kernel.
If you are working with a lot of links in Sitecore, you would have encountered the function EnsurePrefix, that takes in a char and a string as arguments; this is one of the members of this class. Aside from this uber useful utility here are a list of what you can also pick up and use inside this sealed class.

Function/Method Parameters Description
ArrayToString Array, char Makes strings out of Arrays
Capitalize string Uppercases the first letter of a string and lowercases the remaining letters.
Clip string, int, bool Clips a string at a certain length. The bool argument is for the ellipsis
Combine object, object, string Combines the ToString() representation of the two objects separated by a string divider
Concat object[] Accepts a collection of objects and concats the ToString() representation of each value
Contains string, string[] Looks for the first instance of the string in the string[] object. Returns bool
CutUp string, int Cuts up the supplied string into the chunk size (int) and returns as an ArrayList
Decode byte[] Calls the UTF8.GetString(bytes)
DecodeMessageParameter string Replaces the "_eq_" with "=" and "_qst_" with "?"
DictionaryToNameValues SafeDictionary Returns a NameValueCollection from the dictionary object
Divide string, char, bool Divides the string into two based on the first index of the char separator (if bool = false) or the lastindex if true. Returns string[]
DivideAtDigit string From the supplied string, the function looks for the first character that is a digit and divides the string from there, returns a string[]
Encode string Calls UTF8.GetBytes(string)
EncodeMessageParameter string Replaces the "=" with "_eq_" and "?" with "_qst_"
EnsurePostFix char, string Ensures that the char value is at the end of the supplied string. If the supplied string is Null or Empty, the function returns the char
EnsurePreFix char, string Ensures that the char value is at the beginning of the supplied string. If the supplied string is Null or Empty, the function returns the char

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