Rexx Programming/How to Rexx/string

A string is a datatype used represent literal text or character sequences rather than numeric values. A string consists of a set of characters containing letters, numerals, spaces and symbols. For example, the word "chicken", the phrase "I like hamburgers" and telephone numbers, such as "0121 234 5678" are all strings. The characters used to define a string are typically enclosed using quotationmarks in order to be recognized as a string.

quotationmarks

stringformatting

stringoperators

stringfunctions

stringcomparison

stringconversion

substring

bareword strings

versionstring

interpolation

hexstrings

binarystrings

literal character substitution

working with ASCII

Unicode

stringmanipulation

pattern matching

substitution

transliteration

line termination

length function

concatenation

passwordstrings

packedstrings

print

vector strings

lettercase