String Functions

String Functions

This section identifies how to handle string manipulation. Here is a quick list of these commands:
LCASE$
Converts a string to all lowercase characters.
CHR$
Takes a value between 0 and 255 and puts that value into a string.
LTRIM$
Removes leading spaces from a string.
REPEAT$
Creates multiple copies of a string combined into a new string.
RTRIM$
Returns a string with trailing spaces removed
SPLIT
Splits a string into sub-strings
SPLITCOUNT
Returns the number of sub-strings that would be returned by the SPLIT function.
UCASE$
Converts a string to all uppercase characters
EXTRACT$
Searches for a string based on a starting and ending string.
ORD
Returns the ASCII value of the first character of string A$.
POS
Returns the location of the first occurrence of a search string in the target string.
LEN
Returns the length of a string.