Concatenating, comparing, and determining length

@Compare

Compares two lists pair-wise.

@Length (string)

Returns the length of a string in characters.

@Length(stringlist)

Returns the length of each element of a string list in characters.

@Like

Uses _ (underline) to match any single character and % (percent sign) to match any sequence of characters in accordance with ANSI standard X3.135-1992.

@Like (string ; pattern)

Determines whether two strings match. Conforms to ANSI SQL standard.

@Like(string ; pattern ; esc)

Same as preceding with an escape character.

@Matches

Uses ? to match any single character and * to match any sequence of characters, plus a number of other wildcards. @Matches uses \ as an escape character.

@Matches (string ; pattern)

Determines whether two strings match. Wildcards can be used to expand the scope of the comparison.