• *REVERSE Function
• *s Function
• *token_translate Function
• *TRANSPOSE Function
• a5_stritran_multi_expression_Prepare Function
• CHRTRAN Function
• CompileStringTemplate Function
• EVALUATE_STRING Function
• expand_tabs Function
• Filter_String_Smatch_Change Function
• html_stritran Function
• html_strtran Function
• LINE_INSERT Function
• MASK Function
• REMSPECIAL Function
• STRIP_TRAILING_CHAR Function
• STRITRAN Function
• STRITRAN_MULTI Function
• Stritran_multi_expressions Function
• STRITRAN_SMATCH Function
• STRITRAN_SPECIAL Function
• STRTRAN Function
• STRTRAN_MULTI Function
• strtran_multi_expressions Function
• STRTRAN_SMATCH Function
• STRTRAN_SPECIAL Function
• STRWORDITRAN Function
• STRWORDTRAN Function
• STUFF Function
• TOKEN_SEARCH_REPLACE Function

*REVERSE Function

Syntax

Arguments

string

A non-null character string.

Description

Reverse the order of characters in a string.

Discussion

*REVERSE() returns a new character string by reversing the sequence of characters in the Input_String.

Example

A simple example.

*REVERSE("Edward")   -> "drawdE"

This example substitutes an "and" for the last comma in a list.

strng="Mike" 
 ? if(at(",",strng)=0,strng,*reverse( strtran( *reverse(strng),",","dna ",1,1) ) ) 
 = "Mike" 

 strng = "John, Peter, David, Andrew" 
 ? if(at(",",strng)=0,strng,*reverse( strtran( *reverse(strng),",","dna ",1,1) ) ) 
 = "John, Peter, David and Andrew"

See Also

• Character Functions