> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text.md).

# Text Functions

- [ASCII](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/ascii.md): Returns the ASCII code for a given character
- [CHAR](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/char.md): Returns the character for a given ASCII code
- [CONCAT](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/concat.md): Concatenates all inputs into a string
- [CONTAINS](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/contains.md): Checks if a given column contains specified text
- [ENDSWITH](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/endswith.md): Determines whether a given string ends with a specified substring
- [FIND](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/find.md): Finds the index of a substring within a string
- [FINDNTH](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/findnth.md): Returns the nth occurrence of a substring within a string
- [ISEMPTY](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/isempty.md): Determines if value(s) are empty strings
- [JSONPARSE](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/jsonparse.md): Extracts a single field from a json
- [LEFT](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/left.md): Returns a certain numbers of characters within a string, counting from the left
- [LENGTH](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/length.md): Returns the number of characters within a given text
- [LOWER](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/lower.md): Returns a string, converted to lowercase
- [LTRIM](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/ltrim.md): Removes leading whitespace
- [MID](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/mid.md): Returns a portion of input text beginning at specified location
- [PROPER](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/proper.md): Convert text strings to proper case
- [RIGHT](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/right.md): Returns a certain numbers of characters within a string, counting from the right
- [RTRIM](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/rtrim.md): Removes trailing whitespace
- [SPACE](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/space.md): Produces desired number of spaces
- [SPLIT](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/split.md): Split a string based on a given delimiter
- [STARTSWITH](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/startswith.md): Determines whether a given string begins with a specified substring
- [TRIM](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/trim.md): Removes leading, trailing and repeated whitespace from a text string
- [SUBSTITUTE](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/substitute.md): Substitutes all instances of one value with another value
- [UPPER](https://docs.cascade.io/cascade/functions-and-expressions/functions/text/upper.md): Returns a string, converted to uppercase


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