INFORMIX-GLS Programmer's Guide

INFORMIX-GLS Programmer's Guide
Chapter 2: Character Processing

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Character Processing

Types of Characters

Single-Byte Characters

Multibyte Characters

: The gl_mchar_t Data Type
: Wide Characters

Character Operations

Character Classification

Case Conversion

: Case Conversion for Multibyte Characters
: Case Conversion for Wide Characters
: Exception Handling
: Performance Issues

Code-Set Conversion

: Determining If Code-Set Conversion Is Needed
: Performing Code-Set Conversion
: Performance Issues

String Operations

String Traversal

: Multibyte-Character-String Traversal
: Wide-Character-String Traversal

String Processing

: Concatenation
: String Copying
: String-Length Determination
: Character Searching

Character/String Comparison and Sorting

Other Operations

String and Character Termination

: Character-String Termination
: Multibyte-Character Termination

Managing Memory for Strings and Characters

: Multibyte-Character-String Allocation
: Wide-Character String Allocation
: String Deallocation

Keeping Multibyte Strings Consistent

: Truncating Multibyte Strings
: Fragmenting Multibyte Strings

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