It is unkind to a user to expect them to fill in the full names of a person and then to type in the initials of that person. The ExtractInitials function relieves the user of this burden.

The Left function extracts the left most characters from a string     The Substring function in XpressDox The substring function provides all the functionality to extract pieces of a string, but Left and Right make some operations easier. Left returns the leftmost characters, and Right the rightmost characters.  ...

The Right function extracts the right most characters from a string   The Substring function in XpressDox The substring function provides all the functionality to extract pieces of a string, but Left and Right make some operations easier. Left returns the leftmost characters, and Right the rightmost characters.    ...

String-length is used to test the length of a string (the value of a data element)     Consider the following example. The business rule is that the value of «Code» may not be more than 4 characters. In order to guide users, a rule has been written testing the...

Use the substring function to extract a portion of a string in your XpressDox template   Extract from a position in the string until the end The following example will begin extracting the value of GivenString from position 5 until the end. «substring(GivenString,5)»   Extract a portion of the string...