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12 STRING Methods

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

12.1 $$ASCII   Return the ASCII code of a character within the string.
12.2 $$DATA   Return tree characteristics of the string.
12.3 $$DISTANCE   Determine Levenstein distance between this string and another.
12.4 $$EXTRACT   Return a substring of the string.
12.5 $$FIND   Find the position of a substring within the string.
12.6 $$FNUMBER   Format numbers.
12.7 $$JUSTIFY   Pad the string to specific positions.
12.8 $$LENGTH   Return the length of the string.
12.9 $$PIECECOUNT   Return the count of pieces existing between instances of a delimiter.
12.10 $$PIECE   Return a delimited subset of the string.
12.11 $$REPLACE   Replace instances of a substring within the string.
12.12 $$REVERSE   Reverse the order of characters in the string.
12.13 $$TOLOWER   Return a lowercase version of the string.
12.14 $$TOUPPER   Return an uppercase version of the string.
12.15 $$TRANSLATE   Replace individual characters within the string.
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