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Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Routines
This section describes the routines that you use to work with strings in your application, including sorting strings, modifying the contents of strings, converting dates and times to and from strings, and converting numbers to and from strings.
Subtopics
- Defining and Specifying Strings
- Comparing Strings for Equality
- Determining Sorting Order for Strings in Different Languages
- Determining Sorting Order for Strings in the Same Language
- Modifying Characters and Diacritical Marks
- Truncating Strings
- Searching for and Replacing Strings
- Working With Word, Script, and Line Boundaries
- Converting Date and Time Strings Into Numeric Representations
- Converting Numeric Representations Into Date and Time Strings
- Converting Long Date and Time Values Into Strings
- Converting Between Integers and Strings
- Using Number Format Specification Strings for International Number Formatting
- Converting Between Strings and Floating-Point Numbers