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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. |