String built-in functions perform operations on string values and return either string or numeric values.
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Function |
Keyword |
What it does |
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Concatenate |
CONCATENATE |
Returns the concatenation of a specified list of string values |
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Extract |
EXTRACT |
Returns the string that results from removing leading and trailing spaces from a string value |
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Fixed-length string |
FIX |
Converts a string to a fixed-length character variable |
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Index |
STRING-INDEX |
Returns the starting position of a specified string within a string value |
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Initial cap |
INITCAP |
Capitalizes the first letter of a string |
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Insert |
INSERT |
Returns the string that results from inserting a specified string into a string value starting at a specified position |
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Left justify |
LEFT-JUSTIFY |
Returns the string that results from left justifying a string value |
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Length |
STRING-LENGTH |
Returns the length of a string value |
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Like |
LIKE |
Returns TRUE or FALSE to indicate whether a source string matches a given pattern string |
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Lowercase |
TOLOWER |
Converts a string to lowercase characters |
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Repeat |
STRING-REPEAT |
Returns the string that results from repeating a string value a specified number of times |
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Replace |
REPLACE |
Returns a string that results from replacing, in a string value, each occurrence of a specified string by another specified string |
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Right justify |
RIGHT-JUSTIFY |
Returns the string that results from right justifying a string value |
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Substring |
SUBSTRING |
Returns the substring of a string value, starting from a specified position, and continuing for a specified length |
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Uppercase |
TOUPPER |
Converts a string to uppercase characters |
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Translate |
TRANSLATE |
Returns the string that results from translating characters in a string value that also occur in a selection string, to corresponding characters in a substitution string |
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Verify |
VERIFY |
Returns the position of the first character in a string value that does not occur in a second specified string |
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Word cap |
WORDCAP |
Capitalizes the first character in each word in a string |
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