Text formatting (system words)

Text formatting system functions provide operations for formatting characters and numbers, such as converting characters to upper- or lower- case, or clipping trailing blanks and null numbers, as shown in the next table.

System word	Description
strLib.characterAsInt characterAsInt (characterExpression)	Converts a character string into an integer string.
strLib.clip clip (characterItem)	Deletes trailing blank spaces and nulls from the end of returned character strings.
strLib.formatNumber formatNumber (numericExpression, numericFormat)	Returns a number as a formatted string.
strLib.integerAsChar integerAsChar (IntegerExpression)	Converts an integer string into a character string.
strLib.lowerCase lowerCase(characterItem)	Converts all uppercase values in a character string to lowercase values.
strLib.spaces spaces (characterCount)	Returns a string of a specified length.
strLib.upperCase upperCase (characterItem)	Converts all lowercase values in a character string to uppercase values.