Functions Reference

188 FileMaker Functions Reference
Characters within the non-Roman range are those belonging to the CJK symbols/
punctuations area, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul compatibility Jamo, Kanbun,
CJK unified ideographs, and so on.
Spaces are removed or inserted depending on the value of trimType, as given in the
following tables:
In all cases, spaces between non-Roman characters are removed.
* = insert space between non-Roman and Roman text if there isn’t one.
Examples
TrimAll( ) returns if the value of field is
TrimAll( ) returns
Upper
Format
Upper(text)
Parameter
text - any text expression
or text field
Data type returned
text
This trimType value Does this
0 Removes all spaces between non-Roman and Roman characters (always leave
one space between Roman words).
1 Always includes a half-width space between non-Roman and Roman characters
(always leave one space between Roman words).
2 Removes spaces between non-Roman characters (reduce multiple space
between non-Roman and Roman words to 1 space; do not add spaces if there
are none; always leave one space between Roman words).
3 Removes all spaces everywhere.
Type Non-Roman - Non-Roman Non-Roman - Roman Roman - Roman
0 Remove Remove 1 space
1 Remove 1 space* 1 space
2 Remove 1 space 1 space
3 Remove Remove Remove