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INDEXOF

INDEXOF returns the index of the first occurrence of a specified substring in a string.

Syntax

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INDEXOF ( string , substring ) INDEXOF ( string , substring , startIndex )

Inputs

string - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.
substring - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.
startIndex - A (positive) integer value indicating at which character the search for the substring should start (inclusive). This can be either an attribute of base type integer, an expression that results in an integer or a constant integer value.
The first character starts at index 0.

Return type

integer - the index of the first occurrence of the specified substring or -1 if it is not found

Example

Expression	Result	Type
INDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "o" )	4	Integer
INDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "o" , 5 )	7	Integer
INDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "a" )	-1	Integer
INDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "o" , 8 )	-1	Integer
INDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "o" , -12 )	4	Integer
INDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "o" , 50 )	-1	Integer

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There is no restriction on the value of startIndex. If it is negative, it has the same effect as if it were zero: this entire string may be searched. If it is greater than the length of this string, it has the same effect as if it were equal to the length of this string: -1 is returned.

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LASTINDEXOF

LASTINDEXOF returns the index of the last occurrence of a specified substring in a string.

Syntax

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LASTINDEXOF ( string , substring ) LASTINDEXOF ( string , substring , startIndex )

Inputs

string - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.
substring - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.
startIndex - A (positive) integer value indicating at which character the search for the substring should start (inclusive), searching backwards. This can be either an attribute of base type integer, an expression that results in an integer or a constant integer value.

Return type

integer - the index of the last occurrence of the specified substring or -1 if it is not found

Example

ExpressionResultTypeLASTINDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "o" )7IntegerLASTINDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "o" , 6 )4IntegerLASTINDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "a" )-1IntegerLASTINDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "o" , 3 )-1IntegerLASTINDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "o" , -12 )-1IntegerLASTINDEXOF ( "Hello world" , "o" , 50 )7Integer

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There is no restriction on the value of startIndex. If it is negative, it has the same effect as if it were zero: -1 is returned since there are no characters before character 0. If startIndex is greater than the length of this string, it has the same effect as if it were equal to the length of this string, so the whole string is searched.

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SUBSTRING

SUBSTRING returns the substring of a given string starting from the index provided and ending at the end index if provided, or the end of the string.

Syntax

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SUBSTRING ( string , startIndex ) SUBSTRING ( string , startIndex , endIndex )

Inputs

string - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.
startIndex - A positive integer value indicating at which character the substring should start (inclusive). This can be either an attribute of base type integer, an expression that results in an integer or a constant integer value. The first character starts at index 0.
endIndex - A positive integer value indicating at which character the substring should end (exclusive). This can be either an attribute of base type integer, an expression that results in an integer or a constant integer value. The endIndex cannot exceed the length of the string and should be larger than the startIndex.

Return type

string

Example

ExpressionResultTypeSUBSTRING ( "Hello world" , 1 )"ello world"StringSUBSTRING ( "Hello world" , 0 , 1 )"H"StringSUBSTRING ( "Hello world" , 1 , 5 )"ello"StringSUBSTRING ( "Hello world" , 0 )"Hello world"StringSUBSTRING ( "Hello world" , 0 , LENGTH( "Hello world" ) )"Hello world"String

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SUBSTRING BEFORE

SUBSTRING_BEFORE returns the start of a given string before the first occurrence of substring, or an empty string if substring is not found

Syntax

Code Block
SUBSTRING BEFORE substring IN string SUBSTRING_BEFORE ( string , substring )

Inputs

string - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.
substring - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.

Return type

string

Example

ExpressionResultTypeSUBSTRING BEFORE ":" IN "hello:world""hello"StringSUBSTRING_BEFORE ( "hello:world" , ":" )"hello"String

SUBSTRING_BEFORE ( "hello:world:all" , ":" )

"hello"StringSUBSTRING_BEFORE ( "hello:world" , "h" )""StringSUBSTRING BEFORE "a" IN "hello:world"""StringSUBSTRING_BEFORE ( "" , "hello" )""StringSUBSTRING_BEFORE ( "hello" , "" )""String

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SUBSTRING AFTER

SUBSTRING_AFTER returns the end of a given string after the first occurrence of substring, or an empty string if substring is not found.

Syntax

Code Block
SUBSTRING AFTER substring IN string SUBSTRING_AFTER ( string , substring )

Inputs

string - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.
substring - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.

Return type

string

Example

ExpressionResultTypeSUBSTRING AFTER ":" IN "hello:world""world"StringSUBSTRING_AFTER ( "hello:world:all" , ":" )"world:all"StringSUBSTRING AFTER "a" IN "hello:world"""StringSUBSTRING_AFTER ( "" , "hello" )""StringSUBSTRING_AFTER ( "hello" , "" )"hello"String

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SPLIT

SPLIT returns a multivalued attribute containing every substring that is delimited by the given pattern.

Syntax

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SPLIT string ON pattern SPLIT ( string , pattern )

Inputs

string - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.
pattern - An attribute of base type string or a string value. String must be a valid regular expression. The regular expressions used in several Blueriq Studio functions are common Java 1.4 expressions. For a complete documentation we refer to the online java documentation.

Return type

string (multivalued)

Example

ExpressionResultTypeSPLIT "Hello world" ON "o"[ "Hell" , " w" , "rld" ]String (multivalued)SPLIT ( "Hello world" , "a" )[ "Hello world" ]String (multivalued)SPLIT "Hello" ON "o"[ "Hell" ]String (multivalued)SPLIT ( "ooo" , "o" )[ ]String (multivalued)SPLIT ( "bot" , "o" )[ "b" , "t" ]String (multivalued)SPLIT ( "boot" , "o" )[ "b" , "", "t" ]String (multivalued)SPLIT ( "booot" , "o" )[ "b" , "", "t" ]String (multivalued)To remove dots from a string in combination with the JOIN function:JOIN ( SPLIT ( "H.E.L.L.O" , "\.") , "" )"HELLO"String

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If you use the SPLIT in a default expression on an multivalued attribute, please note that the result will be stored as collection, meaning that all duplicates will be removed. To illustrate this: suppose we have an attribute Test.Splitted (multivalued), which has the default expression SPLIT ( "H.E.L.L.O" , "\."). The result of the expression JOIN ( Test.Splitted , "" ) = "HELO" instead of "HELLO" as in the last example.

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REPLACE

The REPLACE function replaces every occurrence of a string pattern within another string with a provided replacement string. The function is case-sensitive.

Syntax

Code Block
REPLACE pattern IN string WITH replacement REPLACE ( pattern , string , replacement )

Inputs

pattern - An attribute of base type string or a string value. String must be a valid regular expression. The regular expressions used in several Blueriq Studio functions are common Java 1.4 expressions. For a complete documentation we refer to the online java documentation.
string - An attribute of base type string or an expression that results in a string.
replacement - An attribute of base type string or an expression that results in a string.

Return type

string. If the pattern is not found, the original string is returned.

Examples

ExpressionResultTypeREPLACE ":" IN "hello:world:example" WITH " ""hello world example"StringREPLACE ( "o" , "hello world" , "a" )"hella warld"StringREPLACE ( "O" , "hello world" , "a" )"hello world"StringREPLACE "\s" IN "hello world example" WITH """helloworldexample"StringREPLACE ( "\d{2}" , "hello1 world22 example333" , "@" )"hello1 world@ example@3"StringREPLACE ( "" , "hello world" , " " )" h e l l o w o r l d "StringREPLACE "\s" IN "hello world example" WITH "\s""hello\sworld\sexample"String

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The first argument is a pattern (regular expression) and can therefore contain specials like \s for a space. The second and third arguments are strings or expressions, so \s will result in \s.

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EQUALS

EQUALS compares two strings and returns TRUE if and only if they are equal. This function is case sensitive.

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Only use this function if you need a case sensitive comparison of two strings. If you want to compare strings case insensitive, use the '=' operator instead.

Syntax

Code Block
string1 EQUALS string2 EQUALS ( string1 , string2 )

Inputs

string1 - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.
string2 - An attribute of base type string, an expression that results in a string or a constant string value.

Return type

Boolean

Example

ExpressionResultTypeNote"hello" EQUALS "hello"TRUEBooleanEQUALS ( "hello" , "Hello" )FALSEBooleanFALSE because EQUALS is case sensitive"hello" EQUALS "hello "FALSEBooleanFALSE because of trailing spaceEQUALS ( "" , "" )TRUEBoolean

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