About Text Manipulation and Classification Functions

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About Text Manipulation and Classification Functions

The following table contains the functions that manipulate and classify text.

Function

Description

addr

Determines the address within a text variable.

capitalize

Duplicates the text with all words capitalized.

cut

Copies text to the cut and paste buffer.

deleteText

Deletes text from a database field.

findline

Locates the word wrapped line, and its length.

findnline

Locates the next word wrapped line, and its length.

findpline

Locates the preceding word wrapped line, and its length.

insertText

Inserts text into a database field while preserving annotations and formatting.

isalnum

Determines if the character is alphanumeric.

isalpha

Determines if the character is alphabetic.

isdigit

Determines if the character is a numeric.

isfield

Determines if the field exists in the data base.

islower

Determines if the character is lower case.

isspace

Determines if the character is a space character.

isupper

Determines if the character is upper case.

len

Calculates the length of the text.

lower

Duplicates the text in lower case.

ltrim

Removes leading white space from a string.

match

Locates a string within another string.

matchc

Locates a character within a string.

newline

Returns a carriage return and line feed string.

pad

Pads a string with spaces, centered, left or right justified.

paste

Retrieves text from the cut and paste buffer.

rep

Replicates a character into a string.

rtrim

Removes trailing white space from a string.

substr

Returns a partial string from a string.

trim

Removes leading and trailing spaces.

upper

Duplicates the text in upper case.

wordlen

Length of the word.

wrap

Word wraps text data.