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 Superseded in 9.1 by Text function.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