Character string operators

Character string operators allow you to work with and manipulate character strings.

Table 1. Character string operators
Operator Description
ASCII() The ASCII() operator produces a character from its ordinal value.
COLUMN The COLUMN operator generates blanks.
Concatenate (||) The || operator makes a string concatenation.
Substring ([s,e]) The [] (square brackets) extract a substring.
USING The USING operator converts date and numeric values to a string based on a formatting mask.
CLIPPED The CLIPPED operator removes trailing blank spaces (ASCII 32) of a string expression.
ORD() The ORD() operator returns the code point of a character in the current locale.
SPACES The SPACES operator returns a character string with blanks.
LSTR() The LSTR() operator returns a localized string.
SFMT() The SFMT() operator replaces place holders in a string with values.