This week we will be covering scanning, testing, and some functions for manipulating textual string data.

This week we will be examining how to use SDK functions to read and write structured “parameter-value” pairs and how they can be used to access information from menu functions. Our main example will show how to open a file in the application desktop, perform EDGAR validation and get the results.

No, they don’t actually go BOOM! Legato features both implode and explode functions that allow strings to be created from or turned into arrays of strings. There are actually a number of functions for different purposes, such as exploding formatted text or a parameter array. These functions bundle a lot of horsepower into just a few operations and when combined with other functions, they make it easy to load or write complex data.

One of the design goals of Legato was to make it easy for programmers to process and manage textual information. To that end, there are hundreds of string functions in Legato that simplify parsing and manipulating text.