String Filters

String filters manipulate strings. You’ll recall that a string is a sequence of characters—letters, numerals, and special characters like punctuation—like your customer’s name, a sentence, or a product ID number. Thus, for the most part, we use string filters to manage the copy in our emails. 

For example, you might use a string filter to change the case of a letter, remove unwanted whitespace, remove and/or replace words in sentences, add a line break, or add characters to the beginning or end of a string. String filters can also do things like replace characters in a string with URL-safe characters so your links work!

Let’s take a look at how the prepend filter helps us create more inviting copy to promote a product (in this case, nutritious chewy treat) by adding another string before the value, like this:

{{ product.product_name | prepend: "Be sure to reward your good boy with a " }}

Be sure to reward your good boy with a nutritious chewy treat! 

Practice problem: string filters

Ready to test your string filter skills? 

Add the new string “WOOF to our new products:” to the existing string “Your senior pet will say”. The final string should read: 

Your senior pet will say WOOF to our new products:

The key that contains the woof value is pet.pet_sound. You must use the upcase filter (converts string value to all caps) and the append filter (adds a new string after the string value). Make sure to apply them in the right order!

Select the right Liquid code from the options below:

Your senior pet will say {{ pet.pet_sound | upcase | append: "to our new products:" }}

Your senior pet will say {{ pet.pet_sound | append: "to our new products:" | upcase }}

Your senior pet will say {{ pet.pet_sound | append: to our new products: | upcase }}

Your senior pet will say {{ pet_sound | append: "to our new products:" | upcase }}

That’s not right; try again!

Your senior pet will say {{ pet.pet_sound | upcase | append: "to our new products:" }}

Your senior pet will say WOOF to our new products:

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