Configurable string mangling; String as an array; Generate search keywords

string-as-array.liquid

# Treating a String as an Array in Liquid

## Example - Output Each Character

{% assign someProperty = "!#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~" | append: '"' %}
{% assign len = someProperty | size | minus: 1 %}
{% for i in (0..len) %}{{ someProperty | slice: i }}{% endfor %}

## Example - Extracting Keywords for Searches

{% capture bio %}
Joe Hall has been a professional software developer for more than 25 years.

He worked as a programmer for [Microsoft](https://www.microsoft.com/){:target="_blank"}, [IBM](https://www.ibm.com/){:target="_blank"}, and [ThoughtWorks](https://www.thoughtworks.com/){:target="_blank"}; and he was the software architect for a [Fortune 500 bank](https://www.regions.com/){:target="_blank"}. He was the CTO of a [ticket sales and servicing company](https://www.ticketbiscuit.com/){:target="_blank"} and he started his own consulting company in 2006.

Joe makes his living writing desktop, web, and mobile device applications for businesses and governmental agencies, but game programming is his passion, and it was gaming that got him into programming in the first place.

He was a member of the original Xbox team and he joined the Visual Studio .NET team just after the Xbox was released in 2001. Joe is the author of [XNA Game Studio Express: *Developing Games for Windows and the Xbox 360*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1598633686/){:target="_blank"}, published in 2007, and [Fauxcabulary: *Fake definitions. Real funny.*](http://www.lulu.com/shop/joseph-hall/fauxcabulary/paperback/product-22179468.html){:target="_blank"}, self-published in 2015.

Joe also [dabbles](https://groundh0g.deviantart.com/){:target="_blank"} in sketching, cartooning, and creating 3D models. When you see his artistic creations, you'll understand why he makes his living as a programmer.
{% endcapture %}

{% assign someProperty = "!#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~" | append: '"' %}
{% assign len = someProperty | size | minus: 1  %}
{% for i in (0..len) %}{% assign char = someProperty | slice: i %}{% assign bio = bio | replace: char, " " %}{% endfor %}
{{ bio | strip_newlines | downcase | split: " " | sort | uniq | join: " " }}