Refer Below details for all the list of string function available in Ab Initio
char_string
- It returns a one-character native string that corresponds to the specified character code.
decimal_lpad
- It returns a decimal string of the specified length or longer, left-padded with a specified character as needed.
decimal_lrepad
- It returns a decimal string of the specified length or longer, left-padded with a specified character as needed and trimmed of leading zeros.
decimal_strip
- It returns a decimal from a string that has been trimmed of leading zeros and non-numeric characters.
edit_distance
- It returns the minimum number of single-character insertions, deletions, and substitutions needed to turn a specified string into another.
ends_with
- It returns 1 (true) if a string ends with the specified suffix; 0 (false) otherwise.
from_json
- It returns a DML object from a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document.
from_xml
- It returns a DML object from an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.
hamming_distance
- It returns the minimum number of single character substitutions needed to turn a specified string into another string.
is_blank
- It tests whether a string contains only blank characters.
is_bzero
- It tests whether an object is composed of all binary zero bytes.
make_byte_flags
- It returns a vector of flags that indicates whether a character occurs in a specified string.
multistring_create
- It returns a multistring handle from a vector of strings and creates its associated index.
multistring_find
- It returns the first instance of a string matching a string element of a multistring vector.
multistring_find_all
- It returns all instances of a string matching the string elements of a multistring vector.
multistring_free
- It resets a multistring handle, removing its associated index and freeing its memory.
multistring_lfind
- It returns the longest match to the string elements of a multistring vector at the beginning of a searchable string.
multistring_rfind
- It returns the longest match to the string elements of a multistring vector at the end of a searchable string.
