String functions

The string functions can be used to manipulate string data items.

F$ASCII()
F$ASCII() is used to convert the first character of the passed string value into the ASCII numeric equivalent.
F$CHAR()
F$CHAR() is used to convert a numeric ASCII code number into a one character string equivalent.
F$EXTRACT()
F$EXTRACT() is used to extract a specified substring from an EASI string.
F$LOWCASE()
F$LOWCASE() is used to convert upper case characters in a string to lower case.
F$STRING()
F$STRING() is used to convert a numeric value to a string.
F$UPCASE()
F$UPCASE() is used to convert lower case characters in a string to upper case.
F$VALUE()
F$VALUE() is used to convert a string to a numeric value.
FindSubString( )
FindSubString() function is used to find a string within another string, or multi-line string.
Tokenize()
Tokenize() is used to break a single string into a list of strings.

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