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Predefined Functions - Overview
The following tables show the predefined functions by purpose. Predefined functions are generally
processing functions or
description functions .

A processing function performs general processing and returns a return code according to its purpose.

A description function determines a property of an argument and usually returns this property as a numeric value.

Logical Functions
Function Meaning
boolc ,
boolx Boolean functions
contains , contains_any_of , contains_any_not_of Predicate functions for strings
matches Predicate function for strings
line_exists Predicate function for internal tables
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Numeric Functions
Function Meaning
abs , ceil , floor , frac , sign , trunc General numeric functions
ipow Integer power function
nmax , nmin Numeric extremum functions
acos , asin , atan , cos , sin , tan , cosh , sinh , tanh , exp , log , log10 , sqrt Floating point functions
round , rescale Rounding functions
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String Functions
Function Meaning
charlen ,
dbmaxlen , numofchar , strlen Length functions
char_off Length function
cmax , cmin Character-like extremum value functions
count ,
count_any_of , count_any_not_of
Search functions
distance Similarity function
condense Condense function
concat_lines_of
Concatenation function
escape Escape symbol function
find ,
find_end , find_any_of , find_any_not_of Search functions
insert Insert function
match Substring function
repeat Repeat function
replace Replace function
reverse Reverse function
Segment Segment function
shift_left ,
shift_right Shift functions
substring , substring_after , substring_from , substring_before , substring_to Substring functions
to_upper ,
to_lower , to_mixed , from_mixed Case functions
translate Translation function
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Byte String Functions
Function Meaning
xstrlen Length function
bit-set Bit function
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Table Functions
Function Meaning
lines Row function
line_index Index function
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