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Program Command Reference

StrRotate

Syntax: StrRotate￿"<string>", <storage variable name> [,n]

Function: Rotates the left side part and right side part of a string at the nth character, and assigns the resulting string to the specified variable.

Description: Rotation is to the left when “n” is positive, and to the right when “n” is negative. Omitting “n” uses a default value of +1.

Example:

StrRotate "abcde", DDD, –2 ← Assigns the string “deabc” to variable DDD.

StrShift

Syntax: StrShift￿"<string>", <storage variable name> [,n]

Function: Shifts a string left or right n characters, and assigns the resulting string to the specified variable.

Description: Shift is to the left when “n” is positive, and to the right when “n” is negative. Omitting “n” uses a default value of +1.

Example:

StrShift "abcde", DDD, –2 ← Assigns the string “ abc” to variable DDD.

StrSrc

Syntax: StrSrc￿"<string 1>", "<string 2>", <storage variable name> [,<search start location>]

Function: Searches "<string 1>" starting from the specified point (nth character from beginning of string) to determine if it contains the data specified by "<string 2>". If the data is found, this command returns the location of the first character of "<string 2>", starting from the beginning of "<string 1>".

Description: Omitting the start point causes the search to start from the beginning of "<string 1>".

strToExp(

Syntax: strToExp("<string>")

Function: Converts a string to an expression, and executes the expression.

StrUpr

Syntax: StrUpr￿"<string>", <storage variable name>

Function: Converts all the characters of a string to upper case and assigns the resulting string to the specified variable.

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