STRING

Synopsis

HELP:   Convert string data type
TYPE:   OBJECT
SYNTAX: STRING(FROM(CHRSET(CCSID='str'/DEFAULT/ASCII/EBCDIC/SYSTEM/LOCAL,CASE=UPPER/LOWER/FOLD/SUPPER/SLOWER/USRTAB,COMBINED=NFD/NFC/AUTO/ON/OFF,USRTABLE='str'/NPAS/SEPA/DELA/DLAX,WHITESPACE=PRESERVE/REPLACE/COLLAPSE/REMOVE/TRAILING/LEADING/BOTH/NUMBER,ONEMAP),REGEXP(PATTERN='str',NOCASE,MULTILINE,DOT4ALL,EXTENDED,FMTERR,IGNREC)),TO(REGEXP(PATTERN='str',REPLACE='str',NOCASE,MULTILINE,DOT4ALL,EXTENDED,NOCAPTURE,SUBALL,RPLONLY,FMTERR,IGNREC),CHRSET(CCSID='str'/DEFAULT/ASCII/EBCDIC/SYSTEM/LOCAL,CASE=UPPER/LOWER/FOLD/SUPPER/SLOWER/USRTAB,MODE=STOP/IGNORE/SUBSTITUTE/IDENTITY/TRANSLIT,COMBINED=NFD/NFC/AUTO/ON/OFF,SYSTABLE=ICONV,USRTABLE='str'/NPAS/SEPA/DELA/DLAX,WHITESPACE=PRESERVE/REPLACE/COLLAPSE/REMOVE/TRAILING/LEADING/BOTH/NUMBER,SUBCHAR[num/SYSTEM...],ONEMAP),NUMBER(FORMAT='str',LOCALE='str',MINIMUM='str',MAXIMUM='str',MININCL,MAXINCL,IGNREST,BASE=num/BIN/B02/OCT/B08/DEC/B10/HEX/B16),MODE=STOP/CUT,FIXEDLENGTH=num,PADDING=NONE/RIGHT/LEFT,PADCHAR='bin'/BINARY-ZERO/ASCII-BLANK/EBCDIC-BLANK/UTF08-BLANK/UTF16BE-BLANK/UTF16LE-BLANK/UTF32BE-BLANK/UTF32LE-BLANK,NULLTERM))

Description

The conversion object for a string data type allows to convert from an external data representation to another external data representation of a string.