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Description Functions for Character-Like Arguments

These functions return a numerical result.

• charlen, dbmaxlen, numofchar, strlen - length functions

• char_off - length function

• find, find_... - search functions

• count, count_... - search functions

• distance - similarity function

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Note

These functions can be used in suitable operand positions, for example directly as an operand of arithmetic or relational expressions.

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charlen, dbmaxlen, numofchar, strlen -

char_off - Length Function

find, find_... - Search Functions

count, count_... - Search Functions

distance - Distance Function