Difference between revisions of "DECODE()"

Revision as of 07:15, 10 December 2012

Purpose

Function to return a string from a character string or memo field where numeric html entities have been replaced with their display character equivalents

Syntax

DECODE(<expC> | <memofield>)

See Also

ASC(), AT(), ATNEXT(), CHR(), CHRTRAN(), ENCODE(), HTML_ENTITIES(), INLIST(), LEFT(), OCCURS(), RAT(), RIGHT(), STR(), STR_REPLACE(), STREXTRACT(), STRTRAN(), STUFF(), SUBSTR()

Description

The DECODE() function will search <expC> or <memofield> and return a string where numeric html entities have been replaced with their display character equivalents.

Example

? decode("{")
{