Categories and Descriptions of Functions and CALL Routines
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Category |
Functions and CALL Routines |
Description |
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Arithmetic |
DIVIDE Function
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Returns the result of a division that handles special missing values
for ODS output. |
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Array |
DIM Function
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Returns the number of elements in an array. |
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HBOUND Function
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Returns the upper bound of an array. |
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LBOUND Function
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Returns the lower bound of an array. |
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Bitwise Logical Operations |
BAND Function
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Returns the bitwise logical AND of two arguments. |
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BLSHIFT Function
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Returns the bitwise logical left shift of two arguments. |
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BNOT Function
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Returns the bitwise logical NOT of an argument. |
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BOR Function
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Returns the bitwise logical OR of two arguments. |
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BRSHIFT Function
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Returns the bitwise logical right shift of two arguments. |
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BXOR Function
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Returns the bitwise logical EXCLUSIVE OR of two arguments. |
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Character String Matching |
CALL PRXCHANGE Routine
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Performs a pattern-matching replacement. |
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CALL PRXDEBUG Routine
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Enables Perl regular expressions in a DATA step to send debugging output
to the SAS log. |
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CALL PRXFREE Routine
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Frees memory that was allocated for a Perl regular expression. |
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CALL PRXNEXT Routine
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Returns the position and length of a substring that matches a pattern,
and iterates over multiple matches within one string. |
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CALL PRXPOSN Routine
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Returns the start position and length for a capture buffer. |
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CALL PRXSUBSTR Routine
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Returns the position and length of a substring that matches a pattern. |
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PRXCHANGE Function
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Performs a pattern-matching replacement. |
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PRXMATCH Function
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Searches for a pattern match and returns the position at which the pattern
is found. |
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PRXPAREN Function
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Returns the last bracket match for which there is a match in a pattern. |
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PRXPARSE Function
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Compiles a Perl regular expression (PRX) that can be used for pattern
matching of a character value. |
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PRXPOSN Function
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Returns a character string that contains the value for a capture buffer. |
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Character |
ANYALNUM Function
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Searches a character string for an alphanumeric character, and returns
the first position at which the character is found. |
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ANYALPHA Function
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Searches a character string for an alphabetic character, and returns
the first position at which the character is found. |
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ANYCNTRL Function
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Searches a character string for a control character, and returns the
first position at which that character is found. |
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ANYDIGIT Function
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Searches a character string for a digit, and returns the first position
at which the digit is found. |
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ANYFIRST Function
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Searches a character string for a character that is valid as the first
character in a SAS variable name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first
position at which that character is found. |
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ANYGRAPH Function
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Searches a character string for a graphical character, and returns the
first position at which that character is found. |
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ANYLOWER Function
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Searches a character string for a lowercase letter, and returns the
first position at which the letter is found. |
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ANYNAME Function
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Searches a character string for a character that is valid in a SAS variable
name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which that character
is found. |
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ANYPRINT Function
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Searches a character string for a printable character, and returns the
first position at which that character is found. |
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ANYPUNCT Function
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Searches a character string for a punctuation character, and returns
the first position at which that character is found. |
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ANYSPACE Function
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Searches a character string for a white-space character (blank, horizontal
and vertical tab, carriage return, line feed, and form feed), and returns
the first position at which that character is found. |
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ANYUPPER Function
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Searches a character string for an uppercase letter, and returns the
first position at which the letter is found. |
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ANYXDIGIT Function
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Searches a character string for a hexadecimal character that represents
a digit, and returns the first position at which that character is found. |
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BYTE Function
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Returns one character in the ASCII or the EBCDIC collating sequence. |
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CALL CATS Routine
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Removes leading and trailing blanks, and returns a concatenated character
string. |
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CALL CATT Routine
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Removes trailing blanks, and returns a concatenated character string. |
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CALL CATX Routine
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Removes leading and trailing blanks, inserts delimiters, and returns
a concatenated character string. |
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CALL COMPCOST Routine
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Sets the costs of operations for later use by the COMPGED function |
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CALL MISSING Routine
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Assigns missing values to the specified character or numeric variables. |
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CALL SCAN Routine
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Returns the position and length of the nth word from a
character string. |
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CAT Function
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Does not remove leading or trailing blanks, and returns a concatenated
character string. |
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CATQ Function
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Concatenates character or numeric values by using a delimiter to separate
items and by adding quotation marks to strings that contain the delimiter. |
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CATS Function
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Removes leading and trailing blanks, and returns a concatenated character
string. |
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CATT Function
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Removes trailing blanks, and returns a concatenated character string. |
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CATX Function
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Removes leading and trailing blanks, inserts delimiters, and returns
a character string. |
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CHAR Function
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Returns a single character from a specified position in a character
string. |
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CHOOSEC Function
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Returns a character value that represents the results of choosing from
a list of arguments. |
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CHOOSEN Function
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Returns a numeric value that represents the results of choosing from
a list of arguments. |
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COALESCEC Function
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Returns the first non-missing value from a list of character arguments. |
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COLLATE Function
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Returns a character string in ASCII or EBCDIC collating sequence. |
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COMPARE Function
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Returns the position of the leftmost character by which two strings
differ, or returns 0 if there is no difference. |
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COMPBL Function
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Removes multiple blanks from a character string. |
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COMPGED Function
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Returns the generalized edit distance between two strings. |
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COMPLEV Function
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Returns the Levenshtein edit distance between two strings. |
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COMPRESS Function
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Returns a character string with specified characters removed from the
original string. |
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COUNT Function
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Counts the number of times that a specified substring appears within
a character string. |
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COUNTC Function
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Counts the number of characters in a string that appear or do not appear
in a list of characters. |
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COUNTW Function
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Counts the number of words in a character string. |
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DEQUOTE Function
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Removes matching quotation marks from a character string that begins
with a quotation mark, and deletes all characters to the right of the closing
quotation mark. |
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FIND Function
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Searches for a specific substring of characters within a character string. |
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FINDC Function
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Searches a string for any character in a list of characters. |
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FINDW Function
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Returns the character position of a word in a string, or returns the
number of the word in a string. |
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FIRST Function
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Returns the first character in a character string. |
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IFC Function
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Returns a character value based on whether an expression is true, false,
or missing. |
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INDEX Function
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Searches a character expression for a string of characters, and returns
the position of the string's first character for the first occurrence of the
string. |
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INDEXC Function
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Searches a character expression for any of the specified characters,
and returns the position of that character. |
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INDEXW Function
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Searches a character expression for a string that is specified as a
word, and returns the position of the first character in the word. |
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LEFT Function
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Left-aligns a character string. |
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LENGTH Function
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Returns the length of a non-blank character string, excluding trailing
blanks, and returns 1 for a blank character string. |
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LENGTHC Function
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Returns the length of a character string, including trailing blanks. |
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LENGTHM Function
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Returns the amount of memory (in bytes) that is allocated for a character
string. |
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LENGTHN Function
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Returns the length of a character string, excluding trailing blanks. |
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LOWCASE Function
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Converts all letters in an argument to lowercase. |
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MD5 Function
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Returns the result of the message digest of a specified string. |
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MISSING Function
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Returns a numeric result that indicates whether the argument contains
a missing value. |
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NLITERAL Function
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Converts a character string that you specify to a SAS name literal. |
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NOTALNUM Function
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Searches a character string for a non-alphanumeric character, and returns
the first position at which the character is found. |
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NOTALPHA Function
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Searches a character string for a nonalphabetic character, and returns
the first position at which the character is found. |
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NOTCNTRL Function
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Searches a character string for a character that is not a control character,
and returns the first position at which that character is found. |
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NOTDIGIT Function
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Searches a character string for any character that is not a digit, and
returns the first position at which that character is found. |
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NOTFIRST Function
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Searches a character string for an invalid first character in a SAS
variable name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which
that character is found. |
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NOTGRAPH Function
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Searches a character string for a non-graphical character, and returns
the first position at which that character is found. |
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NOTLOWER Function
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Searches a character string for a character that is not a lowercase
letter, and returns the first position at which that character is found. |
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NOTNAME Function
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Searches a character string for an invalid character in a SAS variable
name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which that character
is found. |
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NOTPRINT Function
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Searches a character string for a nonprintable character, and returns
the first position at which that character is found. |
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NOTPUNCT Function
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Searches a character string for a character that is not a punctuation
character, and returns the first position at which that character is found. |
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NOTSPACE Function
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Searches a character string for a character that is not a white-space
character (blank, horizontal and vertical tab, carriage return, line feed,
and form feed), and returns the first position at which |
