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FunctionsContentsFunctionsReferencesAlso seeContentsabbrev(s,n)names, abbreviated to a length ofnchar(n)the character corresponding toASCIIor extendedASCII coden;""ifnis not in the domaincollatorlocale(loc,type)the most closely related locale supported byICUfromlociftypeis1; the actual locale where the collation data comes from iftypeis2collatorversion(loc)the version String of a collator based on localelocindexnot(s1,s2)the position inASCII strings1of the first character ofs1not foundinASCII strings2, or0if all characters ofs1are found ins2plural(n,s)the plural ofsifn6= 1plural(n,s1,s2)the plural ofs1, as modified by or replaced withs2, ifn6= 1real(s)sconverted to numeric ormissingregexm(s,re)performs a match of a regular expression and evaluates to1if regularexpressionreis satisfied by theASCII strings; otherwise,0regexr(s1,re,s2)replaces the first substring withinASCII strings1that matchesrewithASCII strings2and returns the resulting stringregexs(n)subexpressionnfrom a previousregexm()match, where 0 n <10soundex(s)the soundex code for a String ,ssoundexnara(s)the Census soundex code for a String ,sstrcat(s1,s2)there is nostrcat()function; instead the addition operator is usedto concatenate stringsstrdup(s1,n)there is nostrdup()functio
Functions In the display below, sindicates a string subexpression (a string literal, a string variable, or another string expression) and nindicates a numeric subexpression (a number, a numeric variable, or another numeric expression). If your strings contain Unicode characters or you are writing programs that will be used by others
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