In the previous blog in this series, we looked at an overview of scripting. In this blog, we will explore various functions available as part of analytic applications.

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String Functions

String functions can be used to manipulate a string or extract any information needed. Following are the string functions available in analytic applications.

Some of the commonly used string functions are:

• includes() – determines whether one string may be found inside another string by returning true or false.
• indexof() – returns the index of first occurrence of a specified string within another string.
• length() – returns the number of characters in a string.
• replace() – replaces the main string with some or all matches of a pattern specified.
• split() – splits and returns an array of string based on the specified pattern.
• substring() – returns a subset of the main string between one index and another.
• toLowercase() & toUpperCase() – converts the string to lower case and upper case respectively.

Math Functions

We have a comprehensive list of Math functions in analytic applications.

Array Functions

Following are the array functions available in analytic applications.

Some of the commonly used array functions are:

• fill() – fills all elements of an array with a specified value.
• pop() – removes the last element from the array and then returns it.
• push() – appends one element at the end of the array and returns the new length of the array.
• shift() – removes the first element from the array and then returns it.
• splice() – changes the content of an array, adding new elements while removing old elements.

Date Functions

There are three date functions – now, parse and UTC. All three functions return values in milliseconds.

• now() – returns the number of milliseconds elapsed till current date since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC.
• parse() – parses the specified string into date and then returns the number of milliseconds elapsed till that date since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC.
• UTC() – returns the number of milliseconds elapsed till the specified date since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC.

Conversion Functions

There are four conversion functions available in analytic applications. They are used to convert an integer or a number to a string and vice versa.

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In the subsequent blog, we will explore how to leverage Global Variables in analytic applications.

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