Chapter 21. Built-in Functions

The built-in functions are:

• %ABS (Absolute Value of Expression)
• %ADDR (Get Address of Variable)
• %ALLOC (Allocate Storage)
• %BITAND (Bitwise AND Operation)
• %BITNOT (Invert Bits)
• %BITOR (Bitwise OR Operation)
• %BITXOR (Bitwise Exclusive-OR Operation)
• %CHAR (Convert to Character Data)
• %CHECK (Check Characters)
• %CHECKR (Check Reverse)
• %DATE (Convert to Date)
• %DAYS (Number of Days)
• %DEC (Convert to Packed Decimal Format)
• %DECH (Convert to Packed Decimal Format with Half Adjust)
• %DECPOS (Get Number of Decimal Positions)
• %DIFF (Difference Between Two Date, Time, or Timestamp Values)
• %DIV (Return Integer Portion of Quotient)
• %EDITC (Edit Value Using an Editcode)
• %EDITFLT (Convert to Float External Representation)
• %EDITW (Edit Value Using an Editword)
• %ELEM (Get Number of Elements)
• %EOF (Return End or Beginning of File Condition)
• %EQUAL (Return Exact Match Condition)
• %ERROR (Return Error Condition)
• %FIELDS (Fields to update)
• %FLOAT (Convert to Floating Format)
• %FOUND (Return Found Condition)
• %GRAPH (Convert to Graphic Value)
• %HANDLER (handlingProcedure : communicationArea )
• %HOURS (Number of Hours)
• %INT (Convert to Integer Format)
• %INTH (Convert to Integer Format with Half Adjust)
• %KDS (Search Arguments in Data Structure)
• %LEN (Get or Set Length)
• %LOOKUPxx (Look Up an Array Element)
• %MINUTES (Number of Minutes)
• %MONTHS (Number of Months)
• %MSECONDS (Number of Microseconds)
• %NULLIND (Query or Set Null Indicator)
• %OCCUR (Set/Get Occurrence of a Data Structure)
• %OPEN (Return File Open Condition)
• %PADDR (Get Procedure Address)
• %PARMS (Return Number of Parameters)
• %PARMNUM (Return Parameter Number)
• %REALLOC (Reallocate Storage)
• %REM (Return Integer Remainder)
• %REPLACE (Replace Character String)
• %SCAN (Scan for Characters)
• %SCANRPL (Scan and Replace Characters)
• %SECONDS (Number of Seconds)
• %SHTDN (Shut Down)
• %SIZE (Get Size in Bytes)
• %SQRT (Square Root of Expression)
• %STATUS (Return File or Program Status)
• %STR (Get or Store Null-Terminated String)
• %SUBARR (Set/Get Portion of an Array)
• %SUBDT (Extract a Portion of a Date, Time, or Timestamp)
• %SUBST (Get Substring)
• %THIS (Return Class Instance for Native Method)
• %TIME (Convert to Time)
• %TIMESTAMP (Convert to Timestamp)
• %TLOOKUPxx (Look Up a Table Element)
• %TRIM (Trim Characters at Edges)
• %TRIML (Trim Leading Characters)
• %TRIMR (Trim Trailing Characters)
• %UCS2 (Convert to UCS-2 Value)
• %UNS (Convert to Unsigned Format)
• %UNSH (Convert to Unsigned Format with Half Adjust)
• %XFOOT (Sum Array Expression Elements)
• %XLATE (Translate)
• %XML (xmlDocument {:options})
• %YEARS (Number of Years)