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8 STRING Methods

These are methods inherent to the ^%STRING class, which is the default class for M variables created without specifying a class.

8.1 $$ASCII   Return the ASCII code of a character within the string.
8.2 $$DATA   Return tree characteristics of the string.
8.3 $$DISTANCE   Determine Levenstein distance between this string and another.
8.4 $$EXTRACT   Return a substring of the string.
8.5 $$FIND   Find the position of a substring within the string.
8.6 $$FNUMBER   Format numbers.
8.7 $$JUSTIFY   Pad the string to specific positions.
8.8 $$LENGTH   Return the length of the string.
8.9 $$PIECECOUNT   Return the count of pieces existing between instances of a delimiter.
8.10 $$PIECE   Return a delimited subset of the string.
8.11 $$REPLACE   Replace instances of a substring within the string.
8.12 $$REVERSE   Reverse the order of characters in the string.
8.13 $$TOLOWER   Return a lowercase version of the string.
8.14 $$TOUPPER   Return an uppercase version of the string.
8.15 $$TRANSLATE   Replace individual characters within the string.
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