Character Counting Functions
Description
Functions to count elements in strings.
- Name
- Description
- *grouping_word_count Function
Function to help parse nested delimiters - returns # of outermost syntax elements.
- COUNT_TEXTBLOCKS Function
Counts the number of occurrences of a sub-string starting with 'start_string' and ending with 'end_string'.
- INCREMENT_VALUE Function
Increments a value of any type. Character fields can be incremented. e.g. "AZ-9" becomes "BA-0"
- LEN Function
Returns the number of characters in a string.
- len_u Function
Returns the number of characters in a string, honors UTF8 encoding.
- LINE_COUNT Function
Counts the number of lines in a string.
- OCCURS Function
Returns the number of times one string is found in another.
- OCCURS_WORDS Function
Returns the number of times word occurs in string.
- OCCURSI Function
Returns the number of times one Case Insensitive string is found in another.
- rtrim_count Function
Removes the specified number of occurrences of string from the end of inputText
- W_COUNT Function
Counts number of words in a character string.
- WORD_OCCURS Function
Returns number of occurences of word in a list of words. Default delimiter is CRLF
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