Multiline Text Functions


Table: MultiLine Text Functions lists the OLAP DML statements that you use to manipulate multiline text.

MultiLine Text Functions

Statement Description
CHARLIST
Transforms an expression into a multiline text value with a separate line for each value of the original expression.
EXTCOLS
Extracts specified columns from each line of a multiline text value.
EXTLINES
Extracts lines from a multiline text expression.
FILTERLINES
Applies a filter expression that you create to each line of a multiline text expression.
FINDLINES
Determines the position of one or more lines in a multiline text expression.
INLIST
Determines whether every line of a text value is a line in a second text value.
INSCOLS
Inserts into the columns of a multiline TEXT value all the columns of another TEXT value.
INSLINES
Inserts one or more lines into a multiline text expression.
JOINCOLS
Joins the corresponding lines of two or more multiline text values.
JJOINLINES Joins the values of two or more text expressions into a single multiline value.
MAXBYTES
The number of bytes in the longest line of a multiline text expression.
NUMLINES
The number of lines in each value of a text expression. The result returned by NUMLINES has the same dimensions as the specified expression.
REMCOLS
Removes specified columns from every line of a multiline TEXT value.
REMLINES
Removes one or more lines from a multiline TEXT expression and returns the value that remains.
REPLCOLS
Replaces some or all of the character columns in one multiline TEXT value with the columns of another.
REPLLINES
Replaces one or more lines in a multiline text expression.
SORTLINES
Sorts the lines in a multiline TEXT value.
UNIQUELINES
Removes duplicate lines in a multiline TEXT value and sorts the lines in ascending order.