Scripting Guide • Types of Data
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Types of Data
Working with Numbers, Strings, Dates, Currency, and More
This chapter discusses basic data types:
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numbers and strings
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paths, which are a special type of string
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dates and times, which can be either special numbers or special strings
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currency
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hexadecimal values and blobs
At the end of the chapter are two sections that show more advanced methods of interacting with strings and pattern matching with regular expressions.
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Numbers and Strings
Formatting Numbers
Unicode Characters
Path Variables
Create and Customize Path Variables
Relative Paths
File Path Separators
Date-Time Functions and Formats
Date-Time Values
Program with Date-Time Functions
Date-Time Values in Data Tables
Currency
Hexadecimal and BLOB Functions
Work with Character Functions
Concat
Munger
Repeat
Substitute and Substitute Into
Regular Expressions
Regex
Regex Match
Special Characters in Regular Expressions
Escaped Characters in Regular Expressions
Greedy and Reluctant Regular Expressions
Backreferences and Capturing Groups
Lookaround Assertions
Pattern Matching
Parsing Strings in Fixed Fields
Patterns and Case
Troubleshooting Patterns

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Help created on 7/12/2018