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Files management functions

raylib function Native alternative Notes
LoadFileData readFile Cast to seq[byte]
UnloadFileData None Not needed
SaveFileData writeFile  
LoadFileText readFile  
UnloadFileText None Not needed
SaveFileText writeFile  
FileExists os.fileExists  
DirectoryExists os.dirExists  
IsFileExtension strutils.endsWith  
GetFileExtension os.splitFile, os.searchExtPos  
GetFileName os.extractFilename  
GetFileLength os.getFileSize  
GetFileNameWithoutExt os.splitFile  
GetDirectoryPath os.splitFile  
GetPrevDirectoryPath os.parentDir, os.parentDirs  
GetWorkingDirectory os.getCurrentDir  
GetApplicationDirectory os.getAppDir  
GetDirectoryFiles os.walkDir, os.walkFiles  
ChangeDirectory os.setCurrentDir  
GetFileModTime os.getLastModificationTime  
IsPathFile os.getFileInfo  

Text strings management functions

raylib function Native alternative Notes
TextCopy assignment  
TextIsEqual ==  
TextLength len  
TextFormat strutils.format, strformat.`&`  
TextSubtext substr  
TextReplace strutils.replace, strutils.multiReplace  
TextInsert insert  
TextJoin strutils.join  
TextSplit strutils.split, unicode.split  
TextAppend add  
TextFindIndex strutils.find  
TextToUpper strutils.toUpperAscii, unicode.toUpper  
TextToLower strutils.toLowerAscii, unicode.toLower  
TextToPascal None Write a function
TextToInteger strutils.parseInt  
TextToFloat strutils.parseFloat  

Text codepoints management functions (unicode characters)

raylib function Native alternative Notes
LoadCodepoints toRunes  
UnloadCodepoints None Not needed
GetCodepoint runeAt, size Returns 0xFFFD on error
GetCodepointCount runeLen  
GetCodepointPrevious None toRunes and iterate in reverse
GetCodepointNext None Use runes iterator
CodepointToUTF8 toUTF8  
LoadUTF8 toUTF8  
UnloadUTF8 None Not needed

See also procs like graphemeLen, runeSubStr, and other functions provided by the standard library's std/unicode module that can be used for working with Unicode strings in Nim.

Compression/Encoding functionality

raylib function Native alternative Notes
CompressData zippy.compress External package
DecompressData zippy.decompress  
EncodeDataBase64 base64.encode  
DecodeDataBase64 base64.decode  

Misc

raylib function Native alternative Notes
GetRandomValue random.rand  
SetRandomSeed random.randomize  
OpenURL browsers.openDefaultBrowser  
PI (C macros) math.PI  
DEG2RAD math.degToRad A function not a constant
RAD2DEG math.radToDeg