Converting data items (intrinsic functions)
You can use intrinsic functions to convert character-string data items to several other formats, for example, to uppercase or lowercase, to reverse order, to numbers, or to one code page from another.
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You can use the NATIONAL-OF
and DISPLAY-OF
intrinsic
functions to convert to and from national (Unicode) strings.
You
can also use the INSPECT
statement to convert characters.