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ESL Documentation

Function Name

Operation

ASCII2Long( )

Return the ASCII value of a character.

BinaryToHex( )

Encode the binary values of the characters in a string into a Hexadecimal representation.

BooleanToStringFunction( )

Return a boolean value as a string.

ConvertNewline( )

Ensure all single newline and carriage returns are replaced by standard  carriage return with newline pairs.

DecodeString( )

Convert a string potentially containing escape sequences such the escape sequences are the special characters they represent.

EncodeString( )

Convert a string potentially containing special characters (e.g. carriage returns) so the special characters are escape sequences.

HexToBinary( )

Convert a Hexadecimal encoded string into the binary that the code represents.

IsAlphaFunction( )

Return whether the characters in a string are alphabetic.

IsAlphaNumericFunction( )

Return whether the characters in a string are alphanumeric.

IsAlphaNumericOrPuncFunction( )

Return whether the characters in a string are alphanumeric or punctuation marks.

IsAlphaOrPuncFunction( )

Return whether the characters in a string are alphabetic or punctuation marks.

IsASCIIFunction( )

Return whether the characters in a string are ASCII characters.

IsDigitFunction( )

Return whether the characters in a string are integers.

IsDigitOrPuncFunction( )

Return whether the characters in a string are digits or punctuation marks.

Long2ASCII( )

Return an ASCII character from the specified numeric value.

PadStringFunction( )

Add a number of pad characters to the front or rear of a string.

ReverseStringFunction( )

Reverse the order of characters in a string.

SearchStringFunction( )

Determine whether a string is contained in another string and return positional information.

StringCompareFunction( )

Compare two strings to determine if they are equal.

StringToBoolean( )

Compare a string to true and false strings.

StripCarriageReturns( )

Remove all carriage return characters from a string.

StripToFloatFunction( )

Return a numeric string as a float.

StripToIntegerFunction( )

Return a numeric string as an integer.

SubStringFunction( )

Extract characters from a string.

ToLowerFunction( )

Return the characters in a string as lowercase.

ToUpperFunction( )

Return the characters in a string as uppercase.

TrimEndsFunction( )

Remove the leading and trailing blanks in a string.