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Programming in HP PPL

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Returns the number of characters in string.
Example: DIM("12345") returns 5, DIM("""") and
DIM("\n") return 1. (Notice the use of the two double

quotes and the escape sequence.)

STRING

Syntax: STRING (object);
Returns a string representation of object. The result varies
depending on the type of object.
Examples:

INSTRING

Syntax: INSTRING (str1,str2)
Returns the index of the first occurrence of str2 in str1.
Returns 0 if str2 is not present in str1. Note that the first
character in a string is position 1.
Examples:

INSTRING("vanilla","van") returns 1

INSTRING ("banana","na") returns 3

INSTRING("ab","abc") returns 0

LEFT

Syntax: LEFT (str,n)
Return the first n characters of string str. If n ≥ DIM(str) or
n < 0, returns str. If n == 0 returns the string.
Example: LEFT("MOMOGUMBO",3) returns "MOM"

RIGHT

Syntax: RIGHT(str,n)

String

Result

string(F1), when F1(X)

= COS(X)

"COS(X)"

STRING(2/3)

0.666666666667

string(L1) when L1 =

{1,2,3}

"{1,2,3}"

string(M1) when M1 =

"[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]"

1 2 3
4 5 6