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Chapter 5 - Text Utilities

About the Text Utilities

The Text Utilities routines are used for numerous text-handling tasks, including

• defining strings--including functions for allocating strings in the heap and for loading strings from resources
• comparing and sorting strings--including functions for testing whether two strings are equal and functions for finding the sorting relationship between two strings
• modifying the contents of strings--including routines for converting the case of characters, stripping diacritical marks, replacing substrings, and truncating strings
• finding breaks and boundaries in text--including routines for finding word and line breaks, and for finding different script runs in a line of text
• converting and formatting date and time strings--including routines that convert numeric and string representations of dates and times into record format, and routines that convert numeric and record representations of dates and times
  into strings
• converting and formatting numeric strings--including routines that convert string representations of numbers into numeric representations, and routines that convert from numeric representations into formatted strings

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Subtopics

The Text Utilities and the International Resources

Obtaining Resource Information

Pascal Strings and Text Strings