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Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
Schema design
A schema is a graphical data dictionary that contains metadata definitions of the structure of a document to generate test data. Schema provides visual cues for understanding the structure and complete definition of an object.
Functions and expressions
Text functions
CSERIESTOTEXT

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Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
- Files
  You add a file to a project to use it as input in the project. You can upload a file from your local file system to a project from the Files tab to generate test data. Alternatively, you can upload it when you define an action.
- Connections
  A connection defines the properties that are required to connect to an external resource. An action uses a connection to provide source data to a project or write data from a source to a target. Multiple actions can use the same connection. You can define both connections and actions at the project level.
- Schema design
  A schema is a graphical data dictionary that contains metadata definitions of the structure of a document to generate test data. Schema provides visual cues for understanding the structure and complete definition of an object.
  - Introduction to schema design
    Use the Schemas tab to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
  - Type properties
    The properties of a type define the characteristics of the data objects of that type.
  - Item restrictions
    Item restrictions are an optional feature you can use to specify valid or invalid data objects for an item type. Item restrictions are grouped into three categories: Value, Character, and Range.
  - Components
  - Partitioning
  - Type inheritance
  - Schema analyzer
  - Distinguishable objects
  - Functions and expressions
    - Expressions and evaluations
    - Using functions
    - Syntax of a function
    - Function argument syntax
    - Functions that convert character-set encoding to the native code page
    - General functions
    - Bidirectional functions
    - Bit manipulation and testing functions
    - Conversion functions
    - Date/time functions
    - Error handling functions
    - External interface functions
    - Inspection functions
    - Logical functions
    - Lookup and reference functions
    - Math and statistics functions
    - Text functions
      - BCDTOTEXT
      - COUNTSTRING
      - CPACKAGE
      - CSERIESTOTEXT
      - CSIZE
      - CTEXT
      - DATETOTEXT
      - FILLLEFT
      - FILLRIGHT
      - FIND
      - HEXTEXTTOSTREAM
      - LEAVEALPHA
      - LEAVEALPHANUM
      - LEAVENUM
      - LEAVEPRINT
      - LEFT
      - LOWERCASE
      - MAX
      - MID
      - MIN
      - NORMXML
      - NUMBERTOTEXT
      - PACKAGE
      - PROPERCASE
      - RANDDATA
        The RANDDATA function returns random text based on the properties of the output type. The RAND function returns a pseudo-random integer between 0 and RAND_MAX (guaranteed to be at least 32,767). The RANDDATA function generates a valid random value of the item type that is being built when it is invoked.
      - REVERSEBYTE
      - RIGHT
      - SEED
        The SEED function primes the RAND and RANDDATA functions so they produce repeated results.
      - SERIESTOTEXT
      - SQUEEZE
      - SUBSTITUTE
      - TEXT
      - TEXTTOBCD
      - TEXTTONUMBER
      - TEXTTOTIME
      - TIMETOTEXT
      - TODATETIME
      - TONUMBER
      - TRIMLEFT
      - TRIMRIGHT
      - UPPERCASE
      - WORD
    - XML functions
    - Custom functions
    - Date and time format strings
    - Number format strings
    - RUN function return codes
    - Character set codes for CPACKAGE, CSERIESTOTEXT, and CTEXT
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CSERIESTOTEXT

CSERIESTOTEXT specifies the character set of the output of the function. From that point onward, the data is treated as if it were in that character set. If the data is not in the specified character set, you get the wrong answer.

The character set is required to be specified in this function. If you choose not to specify a character set, you should use the original version of the SERIESTOTEXT function.

Syntax:: CSERIESTOTEXT (series-object-expression , "character-set-of-object-content")
Meaning:: CSERIESTOTEXT (series_to_convert, object_character_set )
Returns:: A single text item

The series_to_convert argument concatenates the series of the input argument, including nested delimiters but excluding initiators and terminators.

The second argument, object_character_set, represents the character set of the resulting object.

Examples

In this example, you have the following data that represents bowler information for a bowling league:

Andrews, Jessica:980206:JBC:145:138:177:159

Little, Randy:980116:BBK:175:168

Wayne, Richard:980102:JBC:185:204:179:164:212

Each record consists of the bowler's name, the date of their last game played, a team code and one or more bowling scores. Record is defined as a group that is infix delimited by a colon.

Using the following rule produces results of the concatenation of all scores for all of the bowlers, even though the scores are not all contiguous within the data.

= CSERIESTOTEXT (Score Field:Bowler:Input, "ASCII")
Returns: 145138177159175168185204179164212

You can change the rule to concatenate the list of scores to the bowler's name using the following rule:

= BowlerName Field:Bowler:Input + " ->" + CSERIESTOTEXT (Score Field:Bowler:Input, "ASCII")
Returns:

Andrews, Jessica -> 145138177159

Little, Randy -> 175168

Wayne, Richard -> 185204179164212

In this example, you have an input number that is of variable size, followed by a name. There is no syntax that separates the number from the name. You can define the number as a group with Byte(s) as a component and provide a component rule for Byte(s), such as:

ISNUMBER ($)