BLANK STRING

BLANK STRING

Let Subcommand

Create a blank string of specified length.

It may sometimes be convenient to create a blank string of a given length. This is most likely to be useful when concatenating strings where it is desired to have a specified number of blank spaces between the separate strings.

LET <sout> = BLANK STRING WORD <nlen>
where <sout> is the name of the resulting string;
and <nlen> is a number or parameter that specifies the number of blanks to include in the string.

LET SOUT = BLANK STRING STRING WORD 1
LET SOUT = BLANK STRING STRING WORD NLENGTH

The requested number of blanks must be a positive integer value between 1 and 50,000. Real numbers will be rounded to the closest integer. For values outside this range, an error is reported and no output string is generated.

The total number of characters that DATAPLOT can use for storing functions and strings is set when DATAPLOT is built. The current default (11/2008) is 50,000 characters. Previous versions may set this limit at 1,000 or 10,000 characters. This limit applies to the combined number of characters for all functions and strings.

None

None

NUMBER OF WORDS	=	Return the number of words in a string.
UPPER CASE	=	Convert a string to upper case.
LOWER CASE	=	Convert a string to lower case.
LET FUNCTION	=	Defines a function.
LET STRING	=	Defines a string.
READ STRING	=	Reads a string from a file.
SUBSTITUTE CHARACTER (^)	=	Substitute the value of a string or parameter.
CONCATENATE CHARACTER (&)	=	Concatenate two strings.
SUBTRING	=	Extract a substring from an existing string.
STRING INDEX	=	Extract the start/stop positions of a substring within a string.
STRING CONCATENATE	=	Concatenate one or more previously defined strings.
STRING EDIT	=	Edit a string.
STRING MERGE	=	Insert a string into another string without overwrite.
STRING LENGTH	=	Return the length of a string.
CHARACTER	=	Convert numeric values to strings based on the ASCII collating sequence.
ICHAR	=	Convert a string to numeric values based on the ASCII collating sequence.
GROUP LABEL	=	Define the text for group labels.

Data Management

2017/01

 
let nlen = 1
let sblank = blank string nlen
let s1 = One
let s2 = Two
let s3 = Three
let sout = string concatenate s1 sblank s2 sblank s3
print sout