Function Reference

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Function Reference

Core Functions

Language Features

• <Expression> =~ m/regex/
• <Expression> =~ s/regex/str/

Console Functions

• Print( <expression> ) -- Prints an expressions string value to the console window.
• Println( <expression> ) -- Prints an expressions string value to the console window and inserts a newline charactor at the end.
• Printf( <expression>, <expressions>... ) -- Print a formatted string to the console window
• Input( <expression> ) -- Capture a string typed to console window.
• InputC( <expression> ) -- Capture a char typed to console window.
• Cls( ) -- Clear all text from the console window.

Variable Type Conversions

• Byte( <expression> ) -- Returns the 8-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression.
• Int16( <expression> ) -- Returns the 16-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression.
• Int32( <expression> ) (Alias: Int( $variable )) -- Returns the 32-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression.
• Int64( <expression> ) -- Returns the 64-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression.

• Float( <expression> ) -- Returns the 32-bit floating point representation of an expression.
• Double( <expression> ) -- Returns the 64-bit floating point representation of an expression.
• String( <expression> ) -- Returns the String representation of an expression.

Common Variable Functions

• isInt( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an integer type
• isBinary( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a binary ype
• isFloat( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a float type
• isNumber( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a integer or float type
• isString( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a string type
• isArray( $variable ) -- Check if a variable is an array
• isHash( $variable ) -- Check if a variable is an hash
• isObj( $variable ) -- Check if a variable is an object type
• isClass( $variable ) -- Check if a variable's object type is a class
• isStruct( $variable ) -- Check if a variable's object type is a struct

Binary Data Management Functions

• Pack( <expression>, <expressions> ) -- Pack data into a binary array
• Unpack( <expression>, <binary-array> ) -- Unpack data from a binary array
• BinaryClone( <binary-array> ) -- Clone a binary variable 100% and return a new binary variable with exactly same data as the old one
• BinaryWipe( <binary-array> ) -- Wipes a binary variables data 100% and sets the variable to a blank int containing just 0
• BinaryStr( <binary-array>, <separator> ) -- Create a Hex string from a binary array
• BinaryHex( <expression> ) -- Create a binary array from a hex string
• BinaryLen( <binary-array> ) -- Returns the number of bytes in a binary variable
• BinaryGet( <binary-array>, <index> ) -- Get the byte at an index of a binary variable
• BinarySet( <binary-array>, <index>, <value> ) -- Set the byte at an index of a binary variable
• BinaryReverse( <binary-array>, <start>, <length> ) -- Reverse the order bytes a binary variable
• BinaryMid( <binary-array>, <start>, <length> ) -- Create a binary variable by extracting a number of bytes from another binary variable
• BinaryAppend( <binary-array>, <binary-array2>, <flag> ) -- Append a binary variables data onto the end or beginning of another binary variables data
• BinaryInsert( <binary-array>, <binary-array2>, <index> ) -- Insert a binary variables data into another binary variable at a specific location
• BinaryDelete( <binary-array>, <expressions> ) -- Delete an element from an index (or ranges of indexes) from a binary variable
• BinaryUnshift( <binary-array>, <byte> ) -- Add a byte to the beginning of a binary variable
• BinaryPush( <binary-array>, <byte> ) -- Add a byte to the end of a binary variable
• BinaryShift( <binary-array> ) -- Delete the first byte from a binary variable
• BinaryPop( <binary-array> ) -- Delete the last byte from a binary variable
• BinaryResize( <binary-array>, <size>, <data> ) -- Resize a binary variables data array
• BinaryCompress( <binary-array> ) -- Compress a binary variables data
• BinaryUncompress( <binary-array> ) -- Uncompress a binary variable data
• BinarySave( <binary-array>, <file>, <flag> ) -- Save a binary variable data to file
• BinaryLoad( <file>, <flag> ) -- Create a new binary variable by loading binary data from a file

Math Functions

• Abs( <expression> ) -- Calculates the absolute value of a number
• ACos( <expression> ) -- Calculates the arcCosine of a number
• ASin( <expression> ) -- Calculates the arcsine of a number
• ATan( <expression> ) --
• BitAND( <expression> ) --
• BitNOT( <expression> ) --
• BitOR( <expression> ) --
• BitROTATE( <expression> ) --
• BitSHIFT( <expression> ) --
• BitXOR( <expression> ) --
• Ceiling( <expression> ) --
• Cos( <expression> ) --
• Cosh( <expression> ) --
• Exp( <expression> ) --
• Floor( <expression> ) --
• Log( <expression> ) --
• Math( <expression> ) --
• Max( <expression> ) --
• Min( <expression> ) --
• Mod( <expression> ) --
• Random( <expression> ) --
• Round( <expression> ) --
• Sin( <expression> ) --
• Sinh( <expression> ) --
• Sqrt( <expression> ) --
• Tan( <expression> ) --
• Tanh( <expression> ) --
• Turncate( <expression> ) --

String Functions

• Asc( <expression> ) --
• AscW( <expression> ) --
• Chr( <expression> ) --
• ChrW( <expression> ) --
• Contains( <expression> ) --
• Compare( <expression> ) --
• Dec( <expression> ) -- Returns a integer representation of a hexadecimal string
• FDec( <expression> ) -- Returns a float representation of a hexadecimal string
• DDec( <expression> ) -- Returns a double representation of a hexadecimal string
• DecPad( <expression>, <count> ) -- Pads numeric string to a given number of chars (Filling in the gap with zeros)
• EndsWith( <expression> ) --
• Hex( <expression>, <length> ) -- Returns a string representation of an integer type converted to hexadecimal
• FHex( <expression> ) -- Returns a string representation of an float type converted to hexadecimal
• DHex( <expression> ) -- Returns a string representation of an double type converted to hexadecimal
• InStr( <string>, <substirng>, <casesense>, <occurrence>, <start>, <count> ) -- Checks if a string contains a given substring.
• isAlpha( <expression> ) --
• isAlphaNumeric( <expression> ) --
• isASCII( <expression> ) --
• isFPU( <expression> ) --
• isLower( <expression> ) --
• isNumeric( <expression> ) --
• isSpace( <expression> ) --
• isSpace( <expression> ) --
• isUpper( <expression> ) --
• isXDigit( <expression> ) --
• LC( <expression> ) --
• LCFirst( <expression> ) --
• LCWords( <expression> ) --
• Left( <expression> ) --
• Match( <expression> ) --
• MD5( <expression> ) --
• PadLeft( <expression> ) --
• PadRight( <expression> ) --
• RandStr( <expression> ) --
• RegExp( <expression>, <pattern>, <flag>, <start> ) -- Check if a string fits a given regular expression pattern
• Replace( <expression> ) --
• Reverse( <expression> ) --
• Right( <expression> ) --
• SHA1( <expression> ) --
• Split( <expression>, <delim/pattern>, <flag> ) -- Splits up a string into substrings depending on the given delimiters.
• SPrintf( <expression>, <expressions>... ) -- Create a formatted string
• StartsWith( <expression> ) --
• StrLen( <expression> ) --
• SubStr( <expression> ) --
• Trim( <expression> ) --
• TrimLeft( <expression> ) --
• TrimRight( <expression> ) --
• UC( <expression> ) --
• UCFirst( <expression> ) --
• UCWords( <expression> ) --

Array Functions

• Join( <array>, <separator> ) -- Join an array into a string with an optional separator
• Splice( <array>, <expressions> ) -- Create a new array from an old one splicing it in specific ways
• UBound( <array/binary-array> ) -- Returns the size of array (How many elements it currently has stored)

File Functions

Text File Create/Read/Write Functions

• FileOpen( <FileName>, <flag> ) -- Opens a file for reading or writing
• FileClose( <file> ) -- Closes a previously opened file
• FileWrite( <file>, <expression> ) -- Write text to previously opened file at the current File Steam pointer location
• FileWriteBinary( <file>, <binary-array> ) -- Write the data from a binary variable to previously opened file at the current File Steam pointer location
• FileAppend( <file>, <expression> ) -- Append a line of text to the end of a previously opened text file
• FileAppendBinary( <file>, <expression> ) -- Append the data from a binary variable to the end of a previously opened file
• FileSeek( <file>, <offset>, <flag> ) -- Change the POSITION of the File Stream pointer
• FilePos( <file> ) -- Get the current POSITION of the File Stream pointer
• FileRead( <file>, <expression> ) -- Read a number of characters from a previously opened text file starting from current File Steam pointer location
• FileReadLine( <file>, <expression> ) -- Read a line of text from a previously opened text file (Or specify a name of a file)
• FileReadLines( <file> ) -- Read all lines of text from a previously opened text file (Or specify a name of a file)
• FileSave( <file>, <expression> ) -- Save all text to a file
• FileLoad( <file> ) -- Load all text from a file

Misc Functions

• Return( <expression> ) -- Returns a result from a Function.
• Require( <expression> ) -- Includes a file in the current script.
• Throw( <expression> ) -- Throw an exception.

User Defined Functions

This functions are either a Namepace or a Class.

These functions are created using Sputnik and are not part of the Sputnik core language.

Namespaces

Namespace Str -- Require("String.spk")

• str.StrToHex( <expression> ) -- Convert a string to a hex string
• str.HexToStr( <expression> ) -- Convert a hex string to a string

Classes