Strings is a SatForms plugin that provides a number of very handy string manipulation functions, including the following functions:

• StrCompare - case sensitive compare of two strings (new in Strings V2.3)
• UCase - Converts string to all upper case
• LCase - Converts string to all lower case
• String - Returns a String containing a repeating character string of the length specified
• Pad - Pads a string with defined character to defined length
• InStr - Finds occurrence of one string within another, starting at the start value
• RTrim - Trims trailing spaces
• LTrim - Trims leading spaces
• Trim - Trims leading and trailing spaces
• FormatDate - Formats a date according to the format expression, similar to Visual Basic (Date supplied in Palm prefs format)
• FormatDateN - Formats a date according to the format expression, similar to Visual Basic (Date supplied in GetSysDate format)
• FormatTime - Formats a time according to the format expression, similar to Visual Basic (Time supplied in Palm prefs format)
• FormatTimeN - Formats a time according to the format expression, similar to Visual Basic (Time supplied in GetSysTime format)
• SystemDateFormat - Displays system date format
• SystemTimeFormat - Displays system time format
• IntFromHexString - Converts a string of hex into an integer
• HexStringFromInt - Converts an integer into a string of hex

Strings was formerly a third party commercial extension written by Lightstone Sofwtare and marketed by PalmDataPro.  It has now been updated to include a PocketPC version, and is now included as a standard component of Satellite Forms.

DocID: 10104  DocDate: 2006-01-16