Strings

Built-in functions › Programming and data types › Strings

39 functions in this category.

Function	What it does
append	Concatenate strings without trimming.
assert	Assert that a condition is true; throw an error if not.
blanks	String of n space characters.
deal	Distribute multiple inputs to multiple outputs.
deblank	Remove trailing whitespace from a string.
eps	Floating-point relative accuracy (machine epsilon).
erase	Remove all occurrences of a pattern from a string.
eraseBetween	Remove the substring between two boundary patterns.
eval	Execute a string as MathJet code.
evalc	Evaluate a string and capture its console output.
evalin	Evaluate a string in a different workspace.
findstr	Find one string within another (returns positions of all occurrences).
input	Prompt the user for input from the console.
inputname	Variable name of a function argument from the caller’s perspective.
ischar	Test whether the input is a character array.
isletter	Test whether each character is alphabetic.
isspace	Test whether each character is whitespace.
isstrprop	Test whether characters belong to a named character category.
join	Join an array of strings into a single string.
lower	Convert string to lowercase.
newline	The newline character (\n).
pi	Mathematical constant π.
realmax	Largest positive finite floating-point number.
realmin	Smallest positive normalized floating-point number.
regexp	Match a regular expression against a string.
regexpi	Match a regular expression against a string (case-insensitive).
reverse	Reverse the order of characters in a string.
sprintf	Format data into a string.
strcat	Concatenate strings horizontally.
strcmp	Compare strings for equality (case-sensitive).
strcmpi	Compare strings for equality (case-insensitive).
strfind	Find one string within another.
strncmp	Compare the first n characters of two strings (case-sensitive).
strncmpi	Compare the first n characters of two strings (case-insensitive).
strrep	Replace all occurrences of a substring.
strtrim	Remove leading and trailing whitespace from a string.
strtrunc	Truncate a string to a specified length.
strvcat	Concatenate strings vertically (pad to equal length).
upper	Convert string to uppercase.