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sriram_srec
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
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Location: Chennai
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:42 am Post subject: What are the string operations |
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| What are various string operations in NATURAL like Mid$ and InStr$ in VB |
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naveen_desireddy
Joined: 29 Aug 2005
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Location: Hyderabad, India
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject: Re: What are the string operations |
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Hi,
String Operations
Examine(Will help U in giving No of occurances of an Alphabet or No in a particular string and To find length,U can Replace or Delete a particular Word in string and also to find position ) , Compress( To compress the More than two Strings into one) |
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ofer71
Joined: 27 Dec 2005
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Location: Israel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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This is one of the weaknesses of NATURAL - It doesn't have string manipulation functions like in REXX or VB.
EXAMINE, EXAMINE TRANSLATE, COMPRESS, SEPARATE & MOVE SUBSTRING are the most you can get. Also, you have the MASK & PATTERN options of IF.
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koolbuddy
Joined: 24 Jan 2006
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Location: Chennai
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: What are the string operations |
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Thanks for all your replies.
Cheers!!! |
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