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DATE & STRING UTILITIES API ICR (2735)

DATE & STRING UTILITIES API    ICR (2735)

Name Value
NUMBER 2735
IA # 2735
DATE CREATED 1999/01/27
CUSTODIAL PACKAGE MAILMAN
CUSTODIAL ISC San Francisco
USAGE Supported
TYPE Routine
DBIC APPROVAL STATUS APPROVED
ROUTINE XMXUTIL1
NAME DATE & STRING UTILITIES API
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
These APIs perform date and string manipulation.

Please see the Programmer Manual on the Infrastructure web site for further
information about the APIs and how to use them.
STATUS Active
ID XMXUTIL1
COMPONENT/ENTRY POINT
COMPONENT/ENTRY POINT COMPONENT DESCRIPTION
$$CONVERT
Given an Internet date/time string, returns the VA
FileMan date/time.
$$CTRL
Strip control characters from a string.
$$DECODEUP
Change all ~U~ to ^ in a string.
$$ENCODEUP
Change all ^ to ~U~ in a string.
$$GMTDIFF
Given the time zone, returns the difference (+-hhmm)
from GMT.
$$INDT
Given the VA FileMan date/time, returns the Internet
date/time string.
$$MAXBLANK
Reduce all three or more consecutive blanks in a
string to two.
$$MELD
Combine a string and a number to form a new string of
a given length.
$$MMDT
Given the VA FileMan date/time, returns MailMan
date/time string.
$$SCRUB
Strip control characters and leading/trailing blanks
from a string.
$$STRIP
Strip leading/trailing blanks from a string.
$$TIMEDIFF
Given the decimal time difference between time zones,
returns +-hhmm.
$$TSTAMP
Return a timestamp.
ZONEDIFF
Given a time zone (or time difference from GMT),
returns the number of hours and minutes difference between that and the local
time zone.