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# Text Functions

This section contains descriptions of the Text functions.

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## REGEX

Matches and extracts or optionally replaces text using regular expressions.

### WEBSERVICE

Get some web content from a URI.

### FILTERXML

Apply a XPath expression to a XML document.

### ENCODEURL

Returns a URL-encoded string.

## CLEAN

All non-printing characters are removed from the string.

#### Syntax

CLEAN("Text")

Text refers to the text from which to remove all non-printable characters.

## ARABIC

Calculates the value of a Roman number. The value range must be between 0 and 3999.

#### Syntax

ARABIC("Text")

Text is the text that represents a Roman number.

#### Example

=IMABS("5+12j") vraca 13.

=IMABS("5+12j") vraca 13.

## PROPER

Capitalizes the first letter in all words of a text string.

#### Syntax

PROPER("Text")

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#### Example

=PROPER("the document foundation") returns The Document Foundation.

## CONCATENATE

Combines several text strings into one string.

#### Syntax

CONCATENATE(String 1 [; String 2 [; … [; String 255]]])

String 1[; String 2][; … ;[String 255]] are strings or references to cells containing strings.

#### Example

=CONCATENATE("Good ";"Morning ";"Mrs. ";"Doe") returns: Good Morning Mrs. Doe.

## EXACT

Compares two text strings and returns TRUE if they are identical. This function is case-sensitive.

#### Syntax

EXACT("Text1"; "Text2")

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#### Example

=EXACT("microsystems";"Microsystems") returns FALSE.

## UNICHAR

Converts a code number into a Unicode character or letter.

#### Syntax

UNICHAR(number)

#### Example

=UNICHAR(169) returns the Copyright character ©.

See also the UNICODE() function.

## ROMAN

Converts a number into a Roman numeral. The value range must be between 0 and 3999, the modes can be integers from 0 to 4.

#### Syntax

ROMAN(Number [; Mode])

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Mode (optional) indicates the degree of simplification. The higher the value, the greater is the simplification of the Roman number.

#### Example

=OR(A; B) returns TRUE

=OR(A; B) returns TRUE

=AND(A; B) returns FALSE

=OR(A; B) returns TRUE

=OR(A; B) returns TRUE

=OR(A; B) returns TRUE

## CHAR

Converts a number into a character according to the current code table. The number can be a two-digit or three-digit integer number.

Kodovi veći od 127 mogu zavisiti od raspoređivanje karaktera Vašeg sistema (na primjer iso-8859-1, iso-8859-2, Windows-1252, Windows-1250) zbog čega mogu ne biti prenosivi .

#### Syntax

YEAR(Broj)

Number is a number between 1 and 255 representing the code value for the character.

#### Example

=CHAR(100) returns the character d.

="abc" & CHAR(10) & "def" inserts a newline character into the string.

## BAHTTEXT

Converts a number to Thai text, including the Thai currency names.

#### Syntax

BAHTTEXT(Number)

Number is any number. "Baht" is appended to the integral part of the number, and "Satang" is appended to the decimal part of the number.

#### Example

=BAHTTEXT(12.65) returns a string in Thai characters with the meaning of "Twelve Baht and sixty five Satang".

## DOLLAR

Converts a number to an amount in the currency format, rounded to a specified decimal place. In the Value field enter the number to be converted to currency. Optionally, you may enter the number of decimal places in the Decimals field. If no value is specified, all numbers in currency format will be displayed with two decimal places.

You set the currency format in your system settings.

#### Syntax

DOLLAR(Value [; Decimals])

Value is a number, a reference to a cell containing a number, or a formula which returns a number.

Decimals is the optional number of decimal places.

#### Example

=OR(A; B) returns TRUE

=DOLLAR(367.456;2) returns $367.46. Use the decimal separator that corresponds to the current locale setting.

## BASE

Converts a positive integer to a specified base into a text from the numbering system. The digits 0-9 and the letters A-Z are used.

#### Syntax

BASE(Number; Radix [; MinimumLength])

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Radix indicates the base of the number system. It may be any positive integer between 2 and 36.

MinimumLength (optional) determines the minimum length of the character sequence that has been created. If the text is shorter than the indicated minimum length, zeros are added to the left of the string.

#### Example

=OCT2HEX(144; 4) vraća tekstualni niz 0064.

=OCT2HEX(144; 4) vraća tekstualni niz 0064.

=OCT2HEX(144; 4) vraća tekstualni niz 0064.

## VALUE

Converts a text string into a number.

#### Syntax

TIMEVALUE("Tekst")

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#### Example

=IMABS("5+12j") vraca 13.

## TEXT

Converts a value into text according to a given format.

#### Syntax

TEXT(Value; Format)

Value is the value (numerical or textual) to be converted.

Format is the text which defines the format. Use decimal and thousands separators according to the language set in the cell format.

#### Example

=TEXT(12.34567;"###.##") returns the text 12.35

=TEXT(12.34567;"000.00") returns the text 012.35

=TEXT("xyz";"=== @ ===") returns the text === xyz ===

See also Number format codes: custom format codes defined by the user.

## LOWER

Converts all uppercase letters in a text string to lowercase.

#### Syntax

LOWER("Text")

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#### Example

=OR(A; B) returns TRUE

## DECIMAL

Converts text with characters from a number system to a positive integer in the base radix given. The radix must be in the range 2 to 36. Spaces and tabs are ignored. The Text field is not case-sensitive.

If the radix is 16, a leading x or X or 0x or 0X, and an appended h or H, is disregarded. If the radix is 2, an appended b or B is disregarded. Other characters that do not belong to the number system generate an error.

#### Syntax

DECIMAL("Text"; Radix)

Text is the text to be converted. To differentiate between a hexadecimal number, such as A1 and the reference to cell A1, you must place the number in quotation marks, for example, "A1" or "FACE".

Radix indicates the base of the number system. It may be any positive integer between 2 and 36.

#### Example

=IMREAL("1+3j") vraca 1.

=IMREAL("1+3j") vraca 1.

=IMREAL("1+3j") vraca 1.

## UPPER

Converts the string specified in the text field to uppercase.

#### Syntax

UPPER("Text")

Text refers to the lower case letters you want to convert to upper case.

#### Example

=UPPER("Good Morning") returns GOOD MORNING.

## LENB

For double-byte character set (DBCS) languages, returns the number of bytes used to represent the characters in a text string.

This function is available since LibreOffice 4.2.

#### Syntax

LENB("Text")

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#### Example

LENB("中") returns 2 (1 DBCS character consisting of 2 bytes).

LENB("中国") returns 4 (2 DBCS characters each consisting of 2 bytes).

LENB("office") returns 6 (6 non-DBCS characters each consisting of 1 byte).

=LENB("Good Afternoon") returns 14.

=LENB(12345.67) returns 8.

## TRIM

Removes spaces from a string, leaving only a single space character between words.

#### Syntax

TRIM("Text")

Text refers to text in which spaces are to be removed.

#### Example

=TRIM(" hello world ") returns hello world without leading and trailing spaces and with single space between words.

## REPT

Repeats a character string by the given number of copies.

#### Syntax

REPT("Text"; Number)

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The result can be a maximum of 255 characters.

#### Example

=REPT("Good morning";2) returns Good morningGood morning.

## REPLACE

Replaces part of a text string with a different text string. This function can be used to replace both characters and numbers (which are automatically converted to text). The result of the function is always displayed as text. If you intend to perform further calculations with a number which has been replaced by text, you will need to convert it back to a number using the VALUE function.

Any text containing numbers must be enclosed in quotation marks if you do not want it to be interpreted as a number and automatically converted to text.

#### Syntax

REPLACE("Text"; Position; Length; "NewText")

Text refers to text of which a part will be replaced.

Position refers to the position within the text where the replacement will begin.

Length is the number of characters in Text to be replaced.

NewText refers to the text which replaces Text.

#### Example

=REPLACE("1234567";1;1;"444") returns "444234567". One character at position 1 is replaced by the complete NewText.

## FIXED

Returns a number as text with a specified number of decimal places and optional thousands separators.

#### Syntax

FIXED(Number; Decimals [; NoThousandsSeparators])

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Decimals refers to the number of decimal places to be displayed.

NoThousandsSeparators (optional) determines whether the thousands separator is used. If the parameter is a number not equal to 0, the thousands separator is suppressed. If the parameter is equal to 0 or if it is missing altogether, the thousands separators of your current locale setting are displayed.

#### Example

=FIXED(1234567.89;3) returns 1,234,567.890 as a text string.

=FIXED(1234567.89;3;1) returns 1234567.890 as a text string.

## CODE

Returns a numeric code for the first character in a text string.

#### Syntax

CODE("Text")

Text is the text for which the code of the first character is to be found.

Kodovi veći od 127 mogu zavisiti od raspoređivanje karaktera Vašeg sistema (na primjer iso-8859-1, iso-8859-2, Windows-1252, Windows-1250) zbog čega mogu ne biti prenosivi .

#### Example

=CODE("Hieronymus") returns 72, =CODE("hieroglyphic") returns 104.

The code used here does not refer to ASCII, but to the code table currently loaded.

## MIDB

Returns a text string of a DBCS text. The parameters specify the starting position and the number of characters.

This function is available since LibreOffice 4.2.

#### Syntax

MIDB("Text"; Start; Number_bytes)

Text is the text containing the characters to extract.

Start is the position of the first character in the text to extract.

Number_bytes specifies the number of characters MIDB will return from text, in bytes.

#### Example

MIDB("中国";1;0) returns "" (0 bytes is always an empty string).

MIDB("中国";1;1) returns " " (1 byte is only half a DBCS character and therefore the result is a space character).

MIDB("中国";1;2) returns "中" (2 bytes constitute one complete DBCS character).

MIDB("中国";1;3) returns "中 " (3 bytes constitute one and a half DBCS character; the last byte results in a space character).

MIDB("中国";1;4) returns "中国" (4 bytes constitute two complete DBCS characters).

MIDB("中国";2;1) returns " " (byte position 2 is not at the beginning of a character in a DBCS string; 1 space character is returned).

MIDB("中国";2;2) returns " " (byte position 2 points to the last half of the first character in the DBCS string; the 2 bytes asked for therefore constitutes the last half of the first character and the first half of the second character in the string; 2 space characters are therefore returned).

MIDB("中国";2;3) returns " 国" (byte position 2 is not at the beginning of a character in a DBCS string; a space character is returned for byte position 2).

MIDB("中国";3;1) returns " " (byte position 3 is at the beginning of a character in a DBCS string, but 1 byte is only half a DBCS character and a space character is therefore returned instead).

MIDB("中国";3;2) returns "国" (byte position 3 is at the beginning of a character in a DBCS string, and 2 bytes constitute one DBCS character).

MIDB("office";2;3) returns "ffi" (byte position 2 is at the beginning of a character in a non-DBCS string, and 3 bytes of a non-DBCS string constitute 3 characters).

## MID

Returns a text string of a text. The parameters specify the starting position and the number of characters.

#### Syntax

MID("Text"; Start; Number)

Text is the text containing the characters to extract.

Start is the position of the first character in the text to extract.

Number specifies the number of characters in the part of the text.

#### Example

=IMABS("5+12j") vraca 13.

## LEFT

Returns the first character or characters of a text.

#### Syntax

LEFT("Text" [; Number])

Text is the text where the initial partial words are to be determined.

Number (optional) specifies the number of characters for the start text. If this parameter is not defined, one character is returned.

#### Example

=OCT2BIN(3; 3) vraca string teksta 011.

## LEFTB

Returns the first characters of a DBCS text.

This function is available since LibreOffice 4.2.

#### Syntax

LEFTB("Text" [; Number_bytes])

Text is the text where the initial partial words are to be determined.

Number_bytes (optional) specifies the number of characters you want LEFTB to extract, based on bytes. If this parameter is not defined, one character is returned.

#### Example

LEFTB("中国";1) returns " " (1 byte is only half a DBCS character and a space character is returned instead).

LEFTB("中国";2) returns "中" (2 bytes constitute one complete DBCS character).

LEFTB("中国";3) returns "中 " (3 bytes constitute one DBCS character and a half; the last character returned is therefore a space character).

LEFTB("中国";4) returns "中国" (4 bytes constitute two complete DBCS characters).

LEFTB("office";3) returns "off" (3 non-DBCS characters each consisting of 1 byte).

## RIGHTB

Returns the last character or characters of a text with double bytes characters sets (DBCS).

This function is available since LibreOffice 4.2.

#### Syntax

RIGHTB("Text" [; Number_bytes])

Text is the text of which the right part is to be determined.

Number_bytes (optional) specifies the number of characters you want RIGHTB to extract, based on bytes.

#### Example

RIGHTB("中国";1) returns " " (1 byte is only half a DBCS character and a space character is returned instead).

RIGHTB("中国";2) returns "国" (2 bytes constitute one complete DBCS character).

RIGHTB("中国";3) returns " 国" (3 bytes constitute one half DBCS character and one whole DBCS character; a space is returned for the first half).

RIGHTB("中国";4) returns "中国" (4 bytes constitute two complete DBCS characters).

RIGHTB("office";3) returns "ice" (3 non-DBCS characters each consisting of 1 byte).

## RIGHT

Returns the last character or characters of a text.

#### Syntax

RIGHT("Text" [; Number])

Text is the text of which the right part is to be determined.

Number (optional) is the number of characters from the right part of the text.

#### Example

=IMABS("5+12j") vraca 13.

## LEN

Returns the length of a string including spaces.

#### Syntax

LEN("Text")

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#### Example

=IMREAL("1+3j") vraca 1.

=IMREAL("1+3j") vraca 1.

## UNICODE

Returns the numeric code for the first Unicode character in a text string.

#### Syntax

UNICODE("Text")

#### Example

=UNICODE("©") returns the Unicode number 169 for the Copyright character.

See also the UNICHAR() function.

## FIND

Returns the position of a string of text within another string.You can also define where to begin the search. The search term can be a number or any string of characters. The search is case-sensitive.

#### Syntax

FIND("FindText"; "Text" [; Position])

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Text is the text where the search takes place.

Position (optional) is the position in the text from which the search starts.

#### Example

=FIND(76;998877665544) returns 6.

## SEARCH

Returns the position of a text segment within a character string. You can set the start of the search as an option. The search text can be a number or any sequence of characters. The search is not case-sensitive. If the text is not found, returns error 519 (#VALUE).

The search supports wildcards or regular expressions. With regular expressions enabled, you can enter "all.*", for example to find the first location of "all" followed by any characters. If you want to search for a text that is also a regular expression, you must either precede every character with a "\" character, or enclose the text into \Q...\E. You can switch the automatic evaluation of wildcards or regular expression on and off in LibreOffice - PreferencesTools - Options - LibreOffice Calc - Calculate.

When using functions where one or more arguments are search criteria strings that represents a regular expression, the first attempt is to convert the string criteria to numbers. For example, ".0" will convert to 0.0 and so on. If successful, the match will not be a regular expression match but a numeric match. However, when switching to a locale where the decimal separator is not the dot makes the regular expression conversion work. To force the evaluation of the regular expression instead of a numeric expression, use some expression that can not be misread as numeric, such as ".[0]" or ".\0" or "(?i).0".

#### Syntax

SEARCH("FindText"; "Text" [; Position])

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Text is the text where the search will take place.

Position (optional) is the position in the text where the search is to start.

#### Example

=SEARCH(54;998877665544) returns 10.

## SUBSTITUTE

Substitutes new text for old text in a string.

#### Syntax

SUBSTITUTE("Text"; "SearchText"; "NewText" [; Occurrence])

Text is the text in which text segments are to be exchanged.

SearchText is the text segment that is to be replaced (a number of times).

NewText is the text that is to replace the text segment.

Occurrence (optional) indicates which occurrence of the search text is to be replaced. If this parameter is missing the search text is replaced throughout.

#### Example

=SUBSTITUTE("123123123";"3";"abc") returns 12abc12abc12abc.

=SUBSTITUTE("123123123";"3";"abc";2) returns 12312abc123.

## ASC

The ASC function converts full-width to half-width ASCII and katakana characters. Returns a text string.

See https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Calc/Features/JIS_and_ASC_functions for a conversion table.

#### Syntax

ASC("Text")

Text is the text that contains characters to be converted.

See also JIS function.

## JIS

The JIS function converts half-width to full-width ASCII and katakana characters. Returns a text string.

See https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Calc/Features/JIS_and_ASC_functions for a conversion table.

#### Syntax

JIS("Text")

Text is the text that contains characters to be converted.

See also ASC function.

## T

This function returns the target text, or a blank text string if the target is not text.

#### Syntax

T(Value)

If Value is a text string or refers to a text string, T returns that text string; otherwise it returns a blank text string.

#### Example

=T(12345) returns an empty string.

=T("12345") returns the string 12345.

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