3.2 Character Functions

Conversion See Note (5).

Conversion to character 

Conversion to integer 

See also:

Table 3–2.

1 

1 

CHAR

ACHAR ¤

ICHAR

IACHAR ¤

INTEGER

CHARACTER

CHARACTER

INTEGER

Index of a substring 

Location of substring a2 in string a1 

See Note (10).

2 

INDEX

CHARACTER

INTEGER

Length 

Length of character entity 

See Note (11).

1 

LEN

CHARACTER

INTEGER

Lexically greater than or equal 

a1 ≥ a2 

See Note (12).

2 

LGE

CHARACTER

LOGICAL

Lexically greater than 

a1 > a2 

See Note (12).

2 

LGT

CHARACTER

LOGICAL

Lexically less than or equal 

a1≤ a2 

See Note (12).

2 

LLE

CHARACTER

LOGICAL

Lexically less than 

a1 < a2 

See Note (12).

2 

LLT

CHARACTER

LOGICAL