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Version: 2025
Character string: How do I extract, delete or replace words?
This page presents the main operations that can be performed on a character string.
Functions for managing RTF controls
List of functions for managing RTF controls
<Table>.ToText (Function)
Creates a character string from the data found in a Table or TreeView Table control.
CharactTypeCount (Function)
Returns the number of characters matching a given type.
TableToText (Function)
Creates a character string from the data found in a Table or TreeView Table control.
StringDeleteDuplicate (Function)
Removes duplicates among substrings of a string, based on one or more separators.
<ANSI string>.EndsWith (Function)
Checks whether a character string ends with:
  • a specific string.
  • one of the strings in an array.
StringToJSON (Function)
Converts a JSON string into a JSON variable.
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.
<ANSI string>.DeleteDuplicate (Function)
Removes duplicates among substrings of a string, based on one or more separators.
TimeToString (Function)
Converts a time to a string in the specified format.
FOR ALL/FOR EACH statement (browse of strings)
The FOR EACH statement is used to browse strings according to different methods...
<ANSI string>.Increment (Function)
Increments a number at the beginning or at the end of a string.
XMLToText (Function)
Converts a character string in XML format into a standard character string.
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.
String functions (prefix syntax)
The following functions are used to handle strings, using prefix syntax:
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.
RTFInsert (Function)
Inserts a character string in RTF into the content of an RTF control (found in a window or in a report) or into the content of a character string in RTF.
MatchRegularExpression (Function)
Checks whether a character string matches a specific format and retrieves the different substrings that match the format.
JSONToString (Function)
Converts the content of a JSON variable to a JSON string.
iPrintWord (Function)
Sends the character string passed in parameter to the print buffer.
NoAccent (Function)
Converts accented characters in a string to non-accented characters.
NoRightCharacter (Function)
Returns a string after removing the specified characters from the right side of the initial string.
StringDelete (Function)
Deletes:
  • all the occurrences of a substring within a string.
  • part of a string within another string. The part of the string to remove is identified by its position and length.
StringEndsWith (Function)
Checks whether a character string ends with:
  • a specific string.
  • one of the strings in an array.
<Type Buffer>Decode (Function)
Decodes a character string that was encoded by Encode.
StringIncrement (Function)
Increments a number at the beginning or at the end of a string.
fInsertTextAtBeginning (Function)
Inserts text at the beginning of a file without overwriting the existing text.
fFind (Function)
Finds a character string or a buffer in a file opened by fOpen.
Phonetic (Function)
Returns the phonetic transcription of the string passed as parameter.
Decode (Function)
Decodes a character string that was encoded by Encode.
RTFAdd (Function)
Adds a character string (in RTF or not) at the end of RTF edit control, RTF control in a report or character string containing a text in RTF.
Middle (Function)
Extracts:
  • a substring from a string starting at a specified position.
  • part of a buffer starting at a specified position.
Functions for managing Dates and Times (prefix syntax)
List of functions for managing dates and times
Manipulate character strings
WINDEV, WINDEV Mobile and WEBDEV allow you to perform different types of operations on character strings via the WLanguage functions...
UUDecode (Function)
Decodes a character string in UUEncode format.
Hash functions
Hashing is used to summarize a file or a character string...
Encode (Function)
Encodes a character string or a buffer. To decode the result, simply use Decode.
<ANSI string>.CharactTypeCount (Function)
Returns the number of characters matching a given type.
PositionOccurrence (Function)
Finds the Xth position of a string within another string.
Truncate (Function)
Truncates the right part of a string or buffer.
<Type Buffer>Encode (Function)
Encodes a character string or a buffer. To decode the result, simply use Decode.
Date and Time functions
List of functions for managing dates and times
Unicode in character strings
The Unicode format is an encoding system that assigns a unique number to each character.
RegexMatch (Function)
Checks whether a string matches the format defined by a regular expression.
Position (Function)
Finds the position of a specified string within another string.
NoLeftCharacter (Function)
Returns a string after removing the specified characters from the left side of the initial string.
Operators on character strings
The character strings can be handled by specific WLanguage functions or by the +, [[ and ]] operators...
<DiskFile variable>.Find (Function)
Finds a character string or a buffer in a file opened by fOpen.
<Unicode string>.RegexMatch (Function)
Checks whether a string matches the format defined by a regular expression.
ExtractStringBetween (Function)
Allows you to:
  • extract a substring between two given separators from a character string.
  • search for substrings between two given separators in a character string.
NoCharacter (Function)
Returns a string after removing the specified leading and trailing characters.
<ANSI string>.Insert (Function)
Inserts a string into another character string at a given position.
<ANSI string>.RegexMatch (Function)
Checks whether a string matches the format defined by a regular expression.
Multilingual messages: Convert to new format (version 27 and later)
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile have included multilingual project support in many previous versions...
StringInsert (Function)
Inserts a string into another character string at a given position.
<JSON variable>.ToString (Function)
Converts the content of a JSON variable to a JSON string.
CommonLength (Function)
Returns the number of common characters between two strings (from the beginning or from the end of the string).
fAddText (Function)
Adds the content of a character string at the end of a file.
String functions
List of functions for managing character strings
Private Store for mobile applications
There are two methods two deploy your applications......
MaxButtonWidth (Property)
The MaxButtonWidth property is used to get and set the maximum width of a button in a tab pane.
geoTrackingEnable (Function)
Enables the management of location tracking in a WINDEV Mobile application.
TopIndent (Property)
The TopIndent property is used to get and change the space at the top of the text (top margin) in a control.
PDF Reader control functions
The following functions are used to manage PDF Reader controls:...
9-slice scaling
The 9-slice scaling allows you to resize the images harmoniously......
Duplicating a project
Duplicating a project allows you to have two identical projects with the same name but found in different directories......
MemSort (Function)
Sorts the elements found in a memory zone.
XMLRestorePosition (Function)
Restores the previously saved context of an XML document.
IgnoreError (Property)
The IgnoreError property gets and sets the different certificate errors ignored by the HTML Display and WEBDEV Page controls.
RegistryRename (Function)
Renames a key in the registry.
6. How to display an AWP site
An Active WEBDEV Page is a dynamic WEBDEV page without persistent context on the server....
WorkingDirectory (Property)
The WorkingDirectory property is used to: get or change the directory used by the HTML Editor control to store the images and CSS sheets of an HTML page. get the directory used by the HTML Display control to store the images and CSS sheets of an HTML page. get the directory used by the Camera control to save photos and videos....
SourceFromPage (Function)
Automatically updates: the value of the items in a data file with the value of the controls in the page. the value of the WLanguage variables with the value of the page controls....
AAF: Zoom the content of a control (Table, Spreadsheet, List box, Pivot table, ...)
To simplify the reading in the controls used to view large volumes of data, the end user has the ability to zoom the data found in the control......
ReplicAdmin: Overview
RegistryValueType (Function)
Returns the type of value found in the registry.
AdLoaded (Property)
The AdLoaded property indicates whether an ad is currently loaded (and displayed) in the Ad control.
SysIdentifier (Function)
Returns the unique identifier of the current mobile device.
PDFReaderOpen (Function)
Opens a PDF file displayed in a PDF Reader control.
SMSDelete (Function)
Deletes an SMS message from the memory of the Android phone. This function should no longer be used.
HCS.FrameSize (Variable)
The HCS.FrameSize variable is used to resize the outgoing data frame.
MemFirst (Function)
Positions on the first element of a memory zone and returns the value of this first element.
iParameter (Function)
Retrieves the printer configuration and configures the print.
ExeRun (Function)
Executes a program (an executable file, for example) from the current application.
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