REVERSE

REVERSE returns a nonvarying string that contains the elements of x in reverse order.

>>-REVERSE(x)--------------------------------------------------><

x

Expression. x must have a computational type and should have a string type. If x does not have a string type, it is converted to string (that is, from numeric to bit, character, graphic or widechar), according to the rules for concatenation.

  dcl Source char value('HARPO');
  dcl Target char(length(Source));

  Target = reverse (Source);     /* 'OPRAH' */