| Name
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Brief
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| asc
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Returns the ASCII value of the uppercase character in parentheses.
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| between
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Extracts a substring using begin and end strings or characters.
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| Char
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Return the character specified by the code number.
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| Code
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Return a numeric code for the first character in input string.
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| Compare
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Compare str1 with str2, identical will return 1.
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| CompareNoCase
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Compare str with str2, returns 0 if identical, negative if str$ is less than str2$ in the alphabetical order, positive if str$ is greater than str2$..
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| EnvVar
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Returns the string value stored in the windows environment variable.
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| Exact
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Return TRUE if both strings are an exact match (case and length).
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| Find
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Finds a string within another string. Case sensitive. No wildcards.
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| FindOneOf
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Finds characters of a string within another string and returns the index of the first found character. Case sensitive. No wildcards.
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| Format
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Convert double to string with LabTalk formatting option. Superseded in 9.1 by Text function.
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Examples
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| GetAt
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Returns a single character specified by an index number.
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Examples
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| GetFileExt
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Get the file extension from the full path.
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| GetFileName
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Get the file name from the full path.
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| GetFilePath
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Get the path from the full path.
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| GetLength
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Get the length of a string.
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| GetToken
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Returns the nth token where a token is separated by the delimiter specified by chDelimiter.
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| IsEmpty
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Determine whether worksheet cell is empty or contains data/missing values.
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| IsFile
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Test whether the string is a valid full path file name
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Example
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| IsFormula
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Determine whether worksheet cell contains cell formula.
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| IsPath
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Test whether the string is a valid file path.
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| Left
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Returns the leftmost n characters from the string.
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| Len
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Returns the number of characters of a string str.
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| Lower
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Converts the string to lowercase.
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| MakeCSV
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This function converts a string which has an identical delimiter into CSV format.
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Example
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| Match
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Compares the string find$ with another string within$ to see whether their contents match with each other.
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Example
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| MatchBegin
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Finds a string pattern within a string. Supports * and ? wildcard characters. Optionally, case-sensitive.
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| MatchEnd
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Finds a string pattern within a string (str1). Supports * and ? wildcard characters. Optionally, case-sensitive.
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| Mid
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Returns a specific number of characters n2 from the string str, starting at the specific position n1. If n2 is not specified, returns everything from n1 to the end of the string.
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| NumberValue
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Converts a string value to a numeric, with options for specifying decimal and separator characters to be used in interpreting the string.
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| Replace
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Replace n2 characters in string1 starting at n1th position with string2.
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| Right
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Returns the rightmost n characters from the string.
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| Search
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Finds a string within another string. Not case sensitive. No wildcards. See MatchBegin.
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| SpanExcluding
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Searches a string for the first occurrence of any character in the specified set string. SpanExcluding extracts and returns all characters preceding the first occurrence of a character from the specified set string.
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| SpanIncluding
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Extracts characters from a string, starting with the first character in the specified set string
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| Substitute
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Substitute string3 with string2 when found in string1.
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| Text
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Convert double to string with LabTalk formatting option.
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| TextJoin
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Join several texts using specified delimiter.
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Example
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| Token
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Get the Nth token using specified delimiter from a string.
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| Trim
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Removes spaces from string.
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| Upper
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Converts the string to uppercase.
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| Value
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Converts the string number to double.
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