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Text functions
Text functions can be used to analyze, rearrange, extract, and build text strings. For example, you could use the MiddleWords function to extract specific words from supplied text.
Text functions operate on these parameters:
fields of type text
text constants (in quotes)
expressions having a text result
Click a function name for details.
This function Returns
Exact
1 (True) for an exact match, or 0 (False) for a mismatch between two text strings or container fields.
Filter
Only the specified characters, in the order that they were originally entered in the text.
FilterValues
Only the specified values, in the order that they were originally entered in the text.
GetAsCSS
The specified text, converted to the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) format.
GetAsDate
Dates in the specified text as field type date, for use in formulas involving dates or date functions.
GetAsNumber
Numbers in the specified text as field type number, for use with formulas involving numbers or numeric functions.
GetAsSVG
The specified text, converted to the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format.
GetAsText
The specified number, date, time or timestamp as field type text, for use with formulas involving text or text functions.
GetAsTime
Times or timestamps in the specified text as field type time, for use with formulas involving the time or timestamp functions.
GetAsTimestamp
The specified data as field type timestamp, for use with formulas involving timestamps.
GetAsURLEncoded
The specified text, converted with URL (Uniform Resource Locators) encoding.
GetValue
A specific value from a list of values.
Hiragana
Hiragana converted from Katakana (hankaku and zenkaku).
KanaHankaku
Hankaku Katakana converted from Zenkaku Katakana.
KanaZenkaku
Zenkaku Katakana converted from Hankaku Katakana.
KanjiNumeral
Kanji numerals converted from Arabic numerals.
Katakana
Zenkaku Katakana converted from Hiragana.
Left
The specified number of characters in the text, counting from the left.
LeftValues
The specified number of values in the text, counting from the left.
LeftWords
The specified number of words in the text, counting from the left.
Length
The number of characters in the specified text, including all spaces, numbers, and special characters.
Lower
All letters in the specified text as lowercase.
Middle
The specified number of characters in the text, starting at a specified character position.
MiddleValues
The specified number of values in the text, starting with a specified value.
MiddleWords
The specified number of words in the text, starting with a specified word.
NumToJText
Roman numbers converted from Japanese text.
PatternCount
The number of occurrences of a search string in the specified text.
Position
The specified occurrence of a search string, starting from a specified position.
Proper
The first letter of each word in the specified text as uppercase, and all other letters as lowercase.
Quote
The specified text surrounded by quotation marks (" ").
Replace
A new string of characters consisting of the specified text as modified by the specified replacement text.
Right
The specified number of characters in the text, counting from the right.
RightValues
The specified number of values in the text, counting from the right.
RightWords
The specified number of words in the text, counting from the right.
RomanHankaku
Hankaku (alphanumeric & symbols) converted from Zenkaku (alphanumeric & symbols).
RomanZenkaku
Zenkaku (alphanumeric & symbols) converted from Hankaku (alphanumeric & symbols).
SerialIncrement
The combined text and numbers in a specified value, with the numbers incremented by the specified amount.
Substitute
A text string with every occurrence of a specified search string in the text replaced by a specified replacement string.
Trim
Text stripped of all leading and trailing spaces.
TrimAll
Text with full width spaces between non-Roman and Roman characters removed.
Upper
All letters in the specified text as uppercase.
ValueCount
A count of the total number of values in the specified text.
WordCount
A count of the total number of words in the specified text.

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