# `narwhals.Expr.str`

::: narwhals.expr.ExprStringNamespace
    handler: python
    options:
      members:
        - contains
        - ends_with
        - head
        - len_chars
        - pad_end
        - pad_start
        - replace
        - replace_all
        - slice
        - split
        - starts_with
        - strip_chars
        - tail
        - to_date
        - to_datetime
        - to_lowercase
        - to_titlecase
        - to_uppercase
        - zfill
      show_source: false
      show_bases: false
