Character processing

These topics describe the character-processing capabilities of the HCL® Informix® GLS library.

These topics describe the following topics that the library supports:
  • Character types: single byte, multibyte, and wide
  • Character operations such as character classification and code-set conversion
  • String operations such as string traversal and concatenation
  • Other operations on multibyte and wide characters
Table 1. Character-processing tasks in descending order of importance.
Character-processing task See
String traversal String traversal
String processing (concatenation, copying, string-length determination, character searching) String processing
Memory allocation Managing memory for strings and characters
Code-set conversion Code-set conversion
Character classification ids_gpg_037.html
Case conversion Case conversion
Character comparison and sorting Character/string comparison and sorting

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