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String Handling Built-In Functions
Built-In Function | Description | IBM i | Windows | Linux | RDML | RDMLX | Notes | ||||||||
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Concatenate strings with a blank character. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Converts source field from binary to alphanumeric. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
CENTRE an argument string into a return string. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Check and convert an alpha string to numeric form. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Check a string only contains allowable values. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Concatenate strings in full (no truncation). | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Converts a text string from one encoding to another. | Y | N | N | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Decrypts a string. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Encrypts a string. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Fill a field with occurrences of a string. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Returns a character string which is built from an input Format Pattern. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Get keywords and values from an ESF string. | Y | N | N | Y | N | ||||||||||
Converts source field from alphanumeric to binary. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Left align argument into return string. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Convert a number to a string. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Reverse a text string. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Right align argument into return string. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Scan a string for first occurrence of a pattern. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Concatenate strings with trailing blanks truncated. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||
Convert a string to uppercase characters. | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Built-In Function | Description | IBM i | Windows | Linux | RDML | RDMLX | Notes