Text Processing Primitives

Basic

Basic

Primitive	Description
Quote	Operator "x", specifies a text string
Add	Operator x+y, numeric or matrix addition
substring	Segment of a text string
find	Position of a substring in a string
findlast	Position of the last occurrence of a substring in a string
len	Number of characters in a string
asc	ASCII code of a character
chr	Character value of an ASCII code
substitute	Replaces all occurrences of a substring
replace	Replaces a specific occurrence of a substring
repeat	String created by repeating a substring a given number of times
lower	String with all characters converted to lowercase
upper	String with all characters converted to uppercase
form	Creates an output form from a list of values
eval	Compiles and evaluates a text string

Conversion

Conversion

Primitive	Description
tostring	Converts a list or number to text
tonumber	Number derived from a text string
tolist	List created by parsing a string into substrings
parse	Parses a node definition into a list of arguments
wordwrap	Inserts carriage returns in a text string to wrap text
tableform	Table representation of a matrix
createhtmltable	HTML table presentation of matrix data
parsehtmltable	Parses an HTML table into matrix data
htmlencode	Replaces characters &, <, >, and " with HTML codes
htmldecode	Replaces HTML codes &, <, >, " with characters
escape	Replaces reserved characters in text strings with %nn codes
unescape	Replaces %nn codes in text strings with corresponding characters
crc32	Returns the 32-bit CRC value for the given text
RGB	Build a RGB color value