Functions Reference
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Aggregate functions
- Chapter 3 Date functions
- Chapter 4 Design functions
- Chapter 5 External functions
- Chapter 6 Financial functions
- Chapter 7 Get functions
- Get(AccountName)
- Get(ActiveFieldContents)
- Get(ActiveFieldName)
- Get(ActiveFieldTableName)
- Get(ActiveLayoutObjectName)
- Get(ActiveModifierKeys)
- Get(ActiveRepetitionNumber)
- Get(ActiveSelectionSize)
- Get(ActiveSelectionStart)
- Get(AllowAbortState)
- Get(AllowToolbarState)
- Get(ApplicationLanguage)
- Get(ApplicationVersion)
- Get(CalculationRepetitionNumber)
- Get(CurrentDate)
- Get(CurrentHostTimestamp)
- Get(CurrentTime)
- Get(CurrentTimestamp)
- Get(CustomMenuSetName)
- Get(DesktopPath)
- Get(DocumentsPath)
- Get(ErrorCaptureState)
- Get(ExtendedPrivileges)
- Get(FileMakerPath)
- Get(FileName)
- Get(FilePath)
- Get(FileSize)
- Get(FoundCount)
- Get(HighContrastColor)
- Get(HighContrastState)
- Get(HostApplicationVersion)
- Get(HostIPAddress)
- Get(HostName)
- Get(LastError)
- Get(LastMessageChoice)
- Get(LastODBCError)
- Get(LayoutAccess)
- Get(LayoutCount)
- Get(LayoutName)
- Get(LayoutNumber)
- Get(LayoutTableName)
- Get(LayoutViewState)
- Get(MultiUserState)
- Get(NetworkProtocol)
- Get(PageNumber)
- Get(PortalRowNumber)
- Get(PreferencesPath)
- Get(PrinterName)
- Get(PrivilegeSetName)
- Get(RecordAccess)
- Get(RecordID)
- Get(RecordModificationCount)
- Get(RecordNumber)
- Get(RecordOpenCount)
- Get(RecordOpenState)
- Get(RequestCount)
- Get(RequestOmitState)
- Get(ScreenDepth)
- Get(ScreenHeight)
- Get(ScreenWidth)
- Get(ScriptName)
- Get(ScriptParameter)
- Get(ScriptResult)
- Get(SortState)
- Get(StatusAreaState)
- Get(SystemDrive)
- Get(SystemIPAddress)
- Get(SystemLanguage)
- Get(SystemNICAddress)
- Get(SystemPlatform)
- Get(SystemVersion)
- Get(TemporaryPath)
- Get(TextRulerVisible)
- Get(TotalRecordCount)
- Get(UserCount)
- Get(UserName)
- Get(UseSystemFormatsState)
- Get(WindowContentHeight)
- Get(WindowContentWidth)
- Get(WindowDesktopHeight)
- Get(WindowDesktopWidth)
- Get(WindowHeight)
- Get(WindowLeft)
- Get(WindowMode)
- Get(WindowName)
- Get(WindowTop)
- Get(WindowVisible)
- Get(WindowWidth)
- Get(WindowZoomLevel)
- Chapter 8 Logical functions
- Chapter 9 Number functions
- Chapter 10 Repeating functions
- Chapter 11 Summary functions
- Chapter 12 Text functions
- Exact
- Filter
- FilterValues
- GetAsCSS
- GetAsDate
- GetAsNumber
- GetAsSVG
- GetAsText
- GetAsTime
- GetAsTimestamp
- GetAsURLEncoded
- GetValue
- Hiragana
- KanaHankaku
- KanaZenkaku
- KanjiNumeral
- Katakana
- Left
- LeftValues
- LeftWords
- Length
- Lower
- Middle
- MiddleValues
- MiddleWords
- NumToJText
- PatternCount
- Position
- Proper
- Quote
- Replace
- Right
- RightValues
- RightWords
- RomanHankaku
- RomanZenkaku
- SerialIncrement
- Substitute
- Trim
- TrimAll
- Upper
- ValueCount
- WordCount
- Chapter 13 Text formatting functions
- Chapter 14 Time functions
- Chapter 15 Timestamp functions
- Chapter 16 Trigonometric functions
- Appendix A Glossary
Chapter 12
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Text functions 169
Data type returned
text
Description
Returns a text result containing the numberOfWords in text, counting from the left.
Note The ampersand (&) and hyphen (-) characters identify the beginning of a new word.
Examples
LeftWords(“Plaid Canvas Suitcase”;2) returns Plaid Canvas.
LeftWords(Name;1) returns Sophie, when the Name field contains Sophie Tang.
Length
Format
Length(field)
Parameter
field - any text, number, date, time, timestamp, or container field, or any text expression
or numeric expression
Data type returned
number
Description
Returns the number of characters in field, including all spaces, numbers, and special
characters. For a container field, Length returns the total stored size of objects in bytes.
Examples
Length(“John”) returns 4.
Length(Description) returns 12 when the value in Description is Modem for PC.
Length(“M1” & Left(Product;5)) returns 7, when the Product field contains
Canvas Backpack.
Lower
Format
Lower(text)
Parameter
text - any text expression or text field