Group Formatting

Removing leading and trailing blank spaces from a character string.

Alltrim( <cString> ) --> cTrimmedString

Converts a locale string into a value of a requested data type.

LChar2Var( <cString>, <cValtype> ) --> xValue

Converts upper case letters in a character string into lower case letters.

Lower( <cString> ) --> cLowerCase

Removes blank spaces at the beginning of a character string.

LTrim( <cString> ) --> cTrimString

Pads a character string, date or numeric value with fill characters

PadL( <Expression>, <nLen>, [<cFillChr>] ) --> cString PadC( <Expression>, <nLen>, [<cFillChr>] ) --> cString PadR( <Expression>, <nLen>, [<cFillChr>] ) --> cString

Deletes blank spaces at the end of a character string.

RTrim( <cString> ) --> cTrimString Trim( <cString> ) --> cTrimString

Defines the number of decimal places used in the display of numbers.

SET DECIMALS TO [<nDecimals>]

Sets the display format for the system time

SET TIME TO HH:MM:SS | hh:MM:SS | hh:MM:SSTT | SYSTEM

Retrieve or change country-specific literals, formats or separators

SetLocale( <nDefine>, [<cNewSetting>] ) --> cOldSetting

Converts the value of a numeric expression to a character string.

Str( <nValue>, [<nLength>], [<nDecimals>] ) --> cString

Converts a numeric value to a character string with leading zeros.

StrZero( <nValue>, [<nLength>], [<nDecimals>] ) --> cString

Transforms a value to a formatted character string.

Transform( <Expression>, <cSayPicture> ) --> cFormattedString

Converts lower case letters in a character string to upper case.

Upper( <cString> ) --> cUpperCase

Converts a variable to it's locale string representation.

Var2LChar( <xValue> ) --> cString