Predefined Functions - Overview

The following tables show the predefined functions by purpose. Predefined functions are generally processing functions or description functions.

A processing function performs general processing and returns a return code according to its purpose.

A description function determines a property of an argument and usually returns this property as a numeric value.

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Logical Functions

Function	Meaning
`boolc`, `boolx`, `xsdbool`	Boolean functions
`contains`, `contains_any_of`, `contains_any_not_of`	Predicate functions for strings
`matches`	Predicate function for strings
`line_exists`	Predicate function for internal tables

Function	Meaning
`abs`, `ceil`, `floor`,`frac`, `sign`, `trunc`	General numeric functions
`ipow`	Integer power function
`nmax`, `nmin`	Numeric extremum functions
`acos`, `asin`, `atan`,`cos`, `sin`, `tan`,`cosh`, `sinh`, `tanh`,`exp`, `log`, `log10`,`sqrt`	Floating point functions
`round`, `rescale`	Rounding functions

Function	Meaning
`charlen`, `dbmaxlen`, `numofchar`,`strlen`	Length functions
`char_off`	Length function
`cmax`, `cmin`	Character-like extremum value functions
`count`, `count_any_of`, `count_any_not_of`	Search functions
`distance`	Similarity function
`condense`	Condense function
`concat_lines_of`	Concatenation function
`escape`	Escape function
`find`, `find_end`, `find_any_of`,`find_any_not_of`	Search functions
`insert`	Insert function
`match`	Substring function
`repeat`	Repeat function
`replace`	Replace function
`reverse`	Reverse function
`Segment`	Segment function
`shift_left`, `shift_right`	Shift functions
`substring`, `substring_after`, `substring_from`, `substring_before`,`substring_to`	Substring functions
`to_upper`, `to_lower`, `to_mixed`, `from_mixed`	Case functions
`translate`	Translation function

Function	Meaning
`xstrlen`	Length function
`bit-set`	Bit function

Function	Meaning
`lines`	Row function
`line_index`	Index function