Lexical - F$EDIT

Use to modify strings.

$ vbl = F$EDIT( string, keyword(s) )

Keywords:

COLLAPSE

COMPRESS

LOWERCASE

TRIM

UNCOMMENT

UPCASE

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The F$EDIT() lexical function is used to modify strings.

Strings can be COLLAPSEd (all spaces and TABs are removed), COMPRESSed (spaces and TABs between words are reduced to a single space), converted to upper/lower case, TRIMmed of leading and trailing spaces and TABs, and comments can be stripped off. The comment delimiter is the exclamation point(“!”).