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Version: 2025
Character string: How to extract, remove and replace words?
This page presents the main operations that can be performed on a character string.
WeekNumber (Function)
Returns the week number within the year that corresponds to the specified date (this date is a character string).
ArrayToString (Function)
Converts a one- or two-dimensional array to a character string.
DocReplace (Function)
Finds all the instances of a character string and replaces them with another string: in an entire Word Processing document. in a fragment....
<Buffer type>.EncryptStandard (Function)
Encrypts a character string or a binary buffer by using a symmetrical encryption algorithm (AES, DES, etc.)
MatchRegularExpression (Function)
Checks whether a character string matches a specific format and retrieves the different substrings that match the format.
EncryptStandard (Function)
Encrypts a character string or a binary buffer by using a symmetrical encryption algorithm (AES, DES, etc.)
sWrite (Function)
Writes a character string to the output buffer of the specified serial port, parallel port or infrared port.
StringToTime (Function)
Converts a time in character string format to a time in HHMMSSCC format that can be used by a Time variable].
WordToArray (Function)
Fills an array with the words from a string.
RTFReplace (Function)
Replaces or inserts a character string in an RTF control (found in a window or in a report) or in a string in RTF (containing a text in RTF).
String (Variable type)
The String type is used to manipulate strings...
<ANSI string>.CharactTypeCount (Function)
Returns the number of characters matching a given type.
Length (Function)
Returns:
  • the length of a string, i.e., the number of characters in the string (including spaces and binary zeros).
  • the size of a buffer, i.e., the number of bytes in the buffer.
ExtractLine (Function)
Extracts a specific line from a character string.
UUEncode (Function)
Encodes a character string according to the UUEncode algorithm.
Functions for managing RTF controls
List of functions for managing RTF controls
gToText (Function)
Deletes the graphic elements from a character string that uses gStoredValue, gImage, ...
<ANSI string>.Insert (Function)
Inserts a string into another character string at a given position.
ASCIIZ string of (Variable type)
The ASCIIZ string of type is used to manipulate strings with a null character at the end, denoted by a zero (as in the C programming language).
StringReverse (Function)
Reverses the characters of a string.
PositionToLine (Function)
Returns the number of the line that contains a character identified by its position in a block of text.
Multilingual messages: Convert to new format (version 27 and later)
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile have included multilingual project support in many previous versions...
Phonetic (Function)
Returns the phonetic transcription of the string passed as parameter.
CharactTypeCount (Function)
Returns the number of characters matching a given type.
Translating programming messages
When developing a multilingual application, you can translate the different messages displayed to the user (messages displayed by Info and YesNo, for example.
Pascal string of (Variable type)
The Pascal string of type corresponds to a length-prefixed string (this length is stored as a byte value). This type of variable is kept for backward compatibility.
TextToXML (Function)
Converts an ANSI string to an XML string.
<DiskFile variable>.Find (Function)
Finds a character string or a buffer in a file opened by fOpen.
<ANSI string>.Increment (Function)
Increments a number at the beginning or at the end of a string.
Project string manager
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile include a string management tool that allows you to view and manipulate all the strings used in the project (or in an element of the project)...
fInsertTextAtBeginning (Function)
Inserts text at the beginning of a file without overwriting the existing text.
String literals: single-line and multiline strings
String literals are used to represent and manipulate data as a sequence of characters. For example, string literals can be used to display information, define a constant, etc.
LineToPosition (Function)
Returns the position of the first character of a line in a block of text.
WordCount (Function)
Returns the number of words in a string.
<ANSI string>.Reverse (Function)
Reverses the characters of a string.
String of (Variable type)
The String of type is used to manipulate fixed-length strings. These strings have a null character at the end, denoted by a zero (as in the C programming language).
Unicode string on (Variable type)
The type Unicode string on is a fixed-length string containing only characters in Unicode format.
<Table>.ToText (Function)
Creates a character string from the data found in a Table or TreeView Table control.
ChangeCharset (Function)
Retrieves and/or changes the character set used: by all the screen fonts. by all the operations performed on the character strings (functions and/or operators)....
ArrayToCSV (Function)
Converts a one-dimensional array or a two-dimensional array into a character string in CSV format.
StringToArray (Function)
Fills a one- or two-dimensional array of the specified type with the character string passed in parameter.
DocToText (Function)
Creates a character string from the data: found in a Word Processing control or in a Word Processing document. found in a paragraph of a Word Processing control....
Types of Edit controls
CSVToArray (Function)
Fills a one- or two-dimensional array of the specified type with the character string in CSV format passed in parameter.
NetSendBuffer (Function)
Transmits a character string to an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or RPC (Remote Procedure Call) server powered by WINDEV. This function is kept for backward compatibility....
Deserialize (Function)
Deserializes a buffer or a character string containing the data from a class, structure, array (including an associative array), queue, stack, list or advanced variable, as well as their subelements.
Unicode in character strings
UNICODE is an encoding system that assigns a unique number to each character....
The RTF control (Report editor)
The "RTF" (Rich Text Format) control is used to display a formatted character string in your report......
Checkers available in the code editor
The code editor proposes several tools used to correct the code......
Handling an HTML control through programming
WINDEV and WEBDEV allow you to handle an HTML control through programming......
XML management: Use example
This application example manages an XML file named "Orders......
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