String functions

Function Description
Asc Finds the ASCII value of a character.
BinaryDecode Converts a string to a binary object.
BinaryEncode Converts binary data to a string.
Canonicalize Canonicalize or decodes the input string.
CharsetDecode Converts a string to its binary representation.
CharsetEncode Uses the specified encoding to convert binary data to a string.
Chr Converts a numeric value to a UCS-2 character.
CJustify Centers a string in a field length.
Compare Performs a case-sensitive comparison of two strings.
CompareNoCase Performs a case-insensitive comparison of two strings.
DayOfWeekAsString Determines the day of the week as a string from 1-7.
Decrypt Decrypts a string that is encrypted with the Encrypt function.
EncodeForCSS Encodes the input string for use in CSS.
EncodeForDN Encodes a given string for safe output in LDAP Distinguished Names.
EncodeForHTML Encodes the input string for safe output in the body of a HTML tag.
EncodeForHTMLAttribute Encodes the input string for safe output in the attribute value of a HTML tag. 
EncodeForJavaScript Encodes the input string for use in JavaScript.
EncodeForLDAP Encodes an input string for a safe output in LDAP queries.
EncodeForURL Encodes the input string for use in URLs.
EncodeForXML Encodes a string for XML.
EncodeForXMLAttribute Encodes a string that can be used as an XML attribute.
Encrypt Encrypts a string.
Find Finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position.
FindNoCase Finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. The search is not case-sensitive.
FindOneOf Finds the first occurrence of any one of a set of characters in a string, from a specified start position.
FormatBaseN Converts number to a string, in the base specified by a radix.
GenerateSecretKey Generates a secure random key value.
GetToken Determines whether a token of the list in the delimiters parameter is present in a string. 
Hash Converts a string into a fixed length hexadecimal string.
Hmac Creates Hash-based Message Authentication Code for the given string based on the algorithm and encoding.
HTMLCodeFormat Replaces special characters in a string with their HTML-escaped equivalents and inserts <pre> and </pre> tags at the beginning and end of the string.
HTMLEditFormat Deprecated function
Insert Inserts a substring in a string after a specified character position. 
JSStringFormat Escapes special JavaScript characters, such as single-quotation mark, double-quotation mark, and newline.
LCase Converts the alphabetic characters in a string to lowercase.
Left Returns up to the leftmost count characters in a string.
Len Determines the length of a string or binary object.
ListValueCount Counts instances of a specified value in a list. The search is case-sensitive.
ListValueCountNoCase Counts instances of a specified value in a list. The search is case-insensitive.
LJustify Left justifies characters in a string of a specified length.
LSIsCurrency Determines whether a string is a valid representation of a currency amount in the current locale.
LSIsDate Determines whether a string is a valid representation of a date/time value in the current locale.
LSIsNumeric Determines whether a string is a valid representation of a number in the current locale.
LSParseCurrency Converts a locale-specific currency string into a formatted number.
LSParseDateTime Converts a string that is a valid date/time representation in the current locale into a date/time object.
LSParseEuroCurrency Formats a locale-specific currency string as a number.
LSParseNumber Converts a string that is a valid numeric representation in the current locale into a formatted number.
LTrim Removes leading spaces from a string.
Mid Extracts a substring from a string.
MonthAsString Determines the name of the month that corresponds to month_number.
ParagraphFormat Replaces single and double newline characters with spaces and HTML paragraph tags respectively.
ParseDateTime Parses a date/time string according to the English (U.S.) locale conventions.
REFind Uses a regular expression (RE) to search a string for a pattern. The search is case sensitive.
REFindNoCase Uses a regular expression (RE) to search a string for a pattern, starting from a specified position. The search is case-insensitive.
REMatch Uses a regular expression (RE) to search a string for a pattern, starting from a specified position. The search is case sensitive.
REMatchNoCase Uses a regular expression (RE) to search a string for a pattern, starting from a specified position. The search is case sensitive.
RemoveChars Removes characters from a string.
RepeatString Creates a string that contains a specified number of repetitions of the specified string.
Replace Replaces occurrences of substring1 in a string with an object in a specified scope. The search is case sensitive.
ReplaceList Replaces occurrences of the elements from a delimited list in a string with corresponding elements from another delimited list. The search is case sensitive.
ReplaceNoCase Replaces occurrences of substring1 with substring2, in the specified scope. The search is case-insensitive.
REReplace Uses a regular expression (RE) to search a string for a string pattern and replace it with another. The search is case sensitive.
REReplaceNoCase Uses a regular expression to search a string for a string pattern and replace it with another. The search is case-insensitive.
Reverse Reverses the order of items, such as the characters in a string or the digits in a number.
Right Gets a specified number of characters from a string, beginning at the right.
RJustify Right justifies characters of a string.
RTrim Removes spaces from the end of a string.
SpanExcluding Gets characters from a string, from the beginning to a character that is in a specified set of characters.
SpanIncluding Gets characters from a string, from the beginning to a character that is not in a specified set of characters.
StringSort Sorts an input string.
StringSome Calls a given closure/function with every element in a given string and returns true, if one of the closure calls returns true.
StringReduce Iterates over every element of the string and calls the closure to work on the elements of the string. 
StringMap Iterates over every entry of the string and calls the closure function to work on the element of the string. 
StringFilter Filters a string to its elements for which the callback function returns true.
StringEvery Determines if all elements of a string satisfy a given condition.
StringEach iterates over a string and runs the closure function for each element in the string.
StripCR Deletes return characters from a string.
ToBase64 Calculates the Base64 representation of a string or binary object.
ToBinary Calculates the binary representation of Base64-encoded data, PDF document, or a spreadsheet.
ToString Converts a value to a string.
Trim Removes leading and trailing spaces and control characters from a string.
UCase Converts the alphabetic characters in a string to uppercase.
URLDecode Decodes a URL-encoded string.
URLEncodedFormat Generates a URL-encoded string.
Val Converts numeric characters that occur at the beginning of a string to a number.
Wrap Wraps text so that each line has a specified maximum number of characters.
XmlFormat Escapes special XML characters in a string so that the string can be used as text in XML.

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