String Functions

Description

Portable SQL string functions.

Name
Description
AllTrim

Trim all leading and trailing white space.

Ascii

Returns the ASCII value of a character.

Character

Converts a numeric expression into a character expression.

Concatenate

Concatenate a list of strings and return the result.

Left

Returns the specified number of leftmost characters from a field or value.

Lower

Converts a string to lowercase.

LTrim

Trim all leading white space.

Position

Return the position of SearchString in StringToSearch.

Replace

Returns the string Text with all occurrences of the string FromString replaced by the string ToString.

Right

Returns the specified number of rightmost characters from a string.

RTrim

Trim all trailing white space.

StringLength

Compute the length of String.

StringPad

Right-pads a string with the specified character(s) until it is the desired length.

StringPadLeft

Left-pads a string with the specified character(s) until it is the desired length.

SubString

Returns the portion of String starting at Position and for Length characters.

Upper

Converts a string to uppercase.