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Scilab Help >> Strings

Strings

• ascii — string ASCII conversions
• asciimat — Converts an array of text into ASCII/UTF8 codes, and reciprocally
• blanks — create string of blank characters
• char — converts in a character array
• convstr — case conversion
• emptystr — zero length string
• evstr — evaluates Scilab expressions and concatenates their results
• grep — find matches of a string in a vector of strings
• isalphanum — check that characters of a string are alphanumerics
• isascii — Tests if every character of given strings is 7-bit US-ASCII
• isdigit — check that characters of a string are digits between 0 and 9
• isletter — check that characters of a string are alphabetic letters
• isnum — tests if a string represents a number
• justify — aligns strings in columns to the left, center, or right
• length — Number of characters of a string. Number of elements of an array or list.
• part — Extraction of characters from strings
• prettyprint — Converts a Scilab object into some corresponding LaTeX, TeX, MathML or HTML strings
• regexp — find a substring that matches the regular expression string
• sci2exp — returns a string able to generate a given Scilab object
• strcat — concatenates character strings
• strchr — find the first occurrence of a character in a string
• strcmp — compare character strings
• strcspn — lengths from the beginning of strings until a character among those prohibited
• strindex — search position of a character string in another string
• string — conversion to string
• stripblanks — strips / trims leading or trailing or both blanks (and tabs) of strings
• strncpy — gets and gives the N first characters of the given strings
• strrchr — find the last occurrence of a character in a string
• strrev — Reverses the order of characters in the given strings
• strsplit — split a single string at some given positions or patterns
• strspn — lengths of the beginning of strings as long as characters are among those allowed
• strstr — Tail of a string starting from the 1st occurrrence of a given fragment
• strsubst — substitute a character string by another in a character string
• strtod — parse and convert literal numbers STRings TO Decimal numbers
• strtok — split string into tokens
• tokenpos — returns the tokens positions in a character string
• tokens — Splits a string using separators and gives its chunks

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