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The string functions provide the ability to manipulate string variables and literals. String functions behave similarly to the standard C language functions. The return values also follow the C language convention.
| Function | Description | 
| Copies a specified number of bytes from one string to another. | |
| Returns a pointer to an array of pointers that point to the actual data of the specified array. This function does not allocate any additional memory, but it returns a pointer to the data in the existing array. | |
| Returns a pointer to an array of pointers to ANSI character strings that corresponds to the wide character strings that are contained in the specified array. | |
| Deletes the drive designation from a path or fully qualified file name. | |
| Retrieves the disk drive designation from a path or fully qualified file name. | |
| Converts a number to a string. | |
| Retrieves the drive, path, file name, or extension from a path. | |
| Adds a trailing backslash to a path specification if it does not already have one. | |
| Compares one string to another. | |
| Returns the appropriate display string for the InstallScript size unit constant that is specified. | |
| Finds a string in another string. | |
| Determines whether the string passed in the parameter szFindMe is found within the string passed in the parameter szString; the function begins its search at the location specified by nStart. | |
| Gets a token from a string based on specified delimiters. | |
| Like StrLengthChars, returns the number of characters in a given string variable (that is, the number of code units in the UTF-16-encoded string) up to the first null character. | |
| Like StrLength, returns the number of characters in a given string variable (that is, the number of code units in the UTF-16-encoded string) up to the first null character. | |
| Extracts list items from a specified string list and places them into the string that is specified by svString. | |
| Removes the last backslash in a path string. | |
| Searches svResult, beginning at the location specified by nStart, and replaces all found instances of szFind with szReplace. | |
| Returns a substring from a string. | |
| Returns the first character of a string as data of type CHAR. | |
| Converts all alphabetic characters in string to lowercase. | |
| Converts a string to a number. | |
| Converts a string to a number—for example, 0x1A to 26. | |
| Converts all alphabetic characters in string to uppercase. | |
| Removes the leading and trailing spaces and tabs from a string. | 
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