$ZISWIDE

Synopsis

$ZISWIDE(string)

Description

$ZISWIDE is a boolean function used to check whether a string contains any 16-bit wide character values. It returns one of the following values:

Note that in a Unicode version of Caché, all characters are 16 bits in length. $ZISWIDE checks the character values to determine if they are in the ASCII range (0-255), and thus could be represented by 8 bits, or in the wide character range (256-65535) and thus use all 16 bits of the Unicode character.

Example

In the following example, the first two commands test strings that contain all narrow (8-bit) character values and return 0. The third command tests a string containing a wide character value (the second character), and therefore, returns 1:

   WRITE $ZISWIDE("abcd"),","
   WRITE $ZISWIDE($CHAR(71,83,77)),","
   WRITE $ZISWIDE($CHAR(71,300,77))

Note that this example returns 0,0,1 only on Caché instances that were installed with Unicode support. Caché installed with 8-bit support returns 0,0,0.

See Also

• $ZPOSITION function

• $ZWASCII function

• $ZWCHAR function

• $ZWIDTH function