Character Procedures: table

Name Procedure Type Description
ACHAR Intrinsic Function Returns character in a specified position in the ASCII character set.
ADJUSTL Intrinsic Function Adjusts left, removing leading blanks and inserting trailing blanks.
ADJUSTR Intrinsic Function Adjusts right, removing trailing blanks and inserting leading blanks.
CHAR Intrinsic Function Returns character in a specified position in the processor's character set of (optional) kind.
IACHAR Intrinsic Function Returns the position of the argument in the ASCII character set.
ICHAR Intrinsic Function Returns the position of the argument in the processor's character set.
INDEX Intrinsic Function Returns the starting position of a substring in a string, leftmost or (optional) rightmost occurance.
LEN Intrinsic Function Returns the size of the argument.
LEN_TRIM Intrinsic Function Returns the number of characters in the argument, not counting trailing blanks.
LGE Intrinsic Function Tests whether the the first argument is greater than or equal to the second argument, based on the ASCII collating sequence.
LGT Intrinsic Function Tests whether the first argument is greater than the second argument, based on the ASCII collating sequence.
LLE Intrinsic Function Tests whether the first argument is less than or equal to the second argument, based on the ASCII collating sequence.
LLT Intrinsic Function Tests whether the first argument is less than the second argument, based on the ASCII collating sequence.
REPEAT Intrinsic Function Concatenates multiple copies of a string.
SCAN Intrinsic Function Scans a string for any characters in a set and returns leftmost or (optional) rightmost position where a match is found.
TRIM Intrinsic Function Removes trailing blanks from a string.
VERIFY Intrinsic Function Returns the position of the leftmost or (optional) rightmost character in the argument string not in a set, or zero if all characters in the set are present.