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Character Conversion Functions

Description

Functions to convert other data types to strings.

Name: Description
*acp_to_wchar Function: Convert ACP encoded text to wide-character text.
*BIN_TO_HTML Function: Convert from binary to html.
*BIN_TO_RTF Function: Convert from binary to rtf.
*blob_to_wchar Function: Convert binary data to wide-character text.
*chartocharset Function: Given the text arguments locale - return the charset to use.
*chartocodepage Function: Given the text arguments locale - return the codepage.
*chartounicode Function: Return the unicode value for the character (given text's code page).
*from_roman Function: Convert Roman numerals to number.
*Gunzip_Text Function: Uncompress blob using gzip.
*Gzip_text Function: Compress string using gzip.
*HTML_TO_BIN Function: Convert from html to binary.
*HTML_TO_PLAIN Function: Convert from html to plain text.
*HTML_TO_RTF Function: Convert from html to rtf.
*html_to_text Function: Get all the selectable text from html.
*lf_to_crlf Function: Converts single LF's to CR-LF pairs.
*PLAIN_TO_HTML Function: Convert from plain text to html.
*PLAIN_TO_RTF Function: Convert from plain text to rtf.
*RTF_TO_BIN Function: Convert from rtf to binary.
*RTF_TO_HTML Function: Convert from rtf to html.
*RTF_TO_PLAIN Function: Convert from rtf to plain text.
*TO_HEX Function: Convert binary data to hexadecimal data.
*TO_OCTAL Function: Convert binary data to octal data.
*to_roman Function: Convert numeric value to roman numerals.
*unicode_to_utf8 Function: Convert unicode number to UTF8 encodeing.
*unit_convert Function: Convert a scalar size/position between units, optional device units.
*utf8_to_unicode Function: Convert utf8 encoded character to unicode number.
*utf8_to_wchar Function: Convert UTF8 encoded text to wide-character text.
*wchar_to_acp Function: Convert wide-character text to ACP encoded text.
*wchar_to_blob Function: Convert wide-character text to binary data.
*wchar_to_utf8 Function: Convert wide-character text to UTF8 encoded text.
A5_ANSIDATE Function: Converts a date string to an ANSI C asctime() formatted date (Day Mon d hh:mm:ss yyyy)
a5_short_type_to_long Function: Converts a short data type to a long type - e.g. 'c' to 'character'. If type = 'list' shows all available data types.
A5_WORD_MERGE Function: Mailmerge into Microsoft Word. Choice = "new" or "template" for an existing template. Mergedata is a comma delimited txt fie.
a5_word_merge_dotnet Function: Merges data into an MS Word Template document. Requires Visual Studio Tools for Office.
ANSI_TO_OEM Function: Interface to windows ansi_to_oem function
ASC Function: Returns the ASCII value of a character.
CHR Function: Converts a numeric expression to a character expression.
CHR_MULTI Function: Generates a string using the specified ASCII value repeated multiple times.
convert_a4_to_a5 Function: Convert a4 data files to a5 format, flags: X- convert extended characters, M-convert memo files, D-DBT to FPT.
convert_acp_to_utf8 Function: Convert ascii encoded text to utf8.
convert_lf_to_crlf Function: For long strings that use LF as a line delimiter, convert to CRLF
convert_utf8_to_acp Function: Convert utf8 encoded text to ascii.
CRLF Function: Returns cr-lf(s).
DEC_TO_HEX Function: Converts a decimal value to hexadecimal.
HEX_TO_DEC Function: Converts a hexadecimal value to a decimal number.
INT Function: Returns the integer part of a number.
OEM_TO_ANSI Function: Interface to windows oem_to_ansi function
S_QUOTE Function: Special quote. Quotes char values, makes logical values into ".T." or ".F.", puts date values in curly braces.
STR Function: Converts a number to a character string.
VAL Function: Converts a character string to a numeric value.
ZBLANK Function: Converts a number to a blank character string if the number is zero.

Related Functions

*HTML_ESCAPE(): Encodes ordinary text into HTML format.
A5_RFC1123DATE(): Takes a date, either as a time or character, and converts it to a string following the RFC 1123 format.
A5_RFC822DATE(): Takes a date, either as a time or character, and converts it to a string, following the RFC 822 format.
A5_RFC850DATE(): Takes a date, either as a time or character, and converts it to a string, following the RFC 850 format.
A5_T_FROM_RFCDATE(): Converts a date string formatted by A5_ANSIDATE(), A5_RFC1123DATE(), A5_RFC822DATE(), or A5_RFC850DATE() into a time-date value.
CDATE(): Converts a date to a formatted character string in the form YYYYMMDD.
CDOW(): Returns a character string containing the name of the day of the week for the specified date.
CMONTH(): Returns the name of the month for the specified date.
CHAR_TO_BLOB(): Returns the blob equivalent of a character string.
CONVERT_TYPE(): Converts variables from one type to another, preserving the data if possible.
CTOD(): Converts a character string containing date information to a Date value.
CTODT(): Converts a date and time string to a time value.
CTOT(): Converts a time string to a time value.
CYEAR(): Returns a character string containing the year in the form YYYY based on the specified date value.
TIME(): Returns a formatted string containing the system time.
split(): Splits a character strings into multiple sub strings and stores them in an array.
TOTIME(): Returns a formatted character string containing a time based on the specified number of seconds past midnight.