Function Reference

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	* [[Core Function Min|Min( <expression> )]] --		* [[Core Function Min|Min( <expression> )]] --
	* [[Core Function Mod|Mod( <expression> )]] --		* [[Core Function Mod|Mod( <expression> )]] --
		+	* [[Core Function Pow|Pow( <expression> )]] --
	* [[Core Function Random|Random( <expression> )]] --		* [[Core Function Random|Random( <expression> )]] --
	* [[Core Function Round|Round( <expression> )]] --		* [[Core Function Round|Round( <expression> )]] --

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Contents 1 Function Reference 1.1 How to create a Function 1.2 Core Functions 1.2.1 Language Features 1.2.2 Console Functions 1.2.3 Multithreading Functions 1.2.4 Variable Type Conversions 1.2.5 Common Variable Functions 1.2.5.1 Misc 1.2.5.2 Arrays 1.2.5.3 Type Checking 1.2.6 Binary Data Management Functions 1.2.7 Math Functions 1.2.8 String Functions 1.2.9 Array Functions 1.2.10 File Functions 1.2.10.1 File Create/Read/Write Functions 1.2.11 Misc Functions 1.3 User Defined Functions

Function Reference

How to create a Function

To create your own funtions see the Function page.

• User Defined Functions

Core Functions

Language Features

• <Expression> =~ m/pattern/flags -- Match a string to a regular expression pattern and check if it matches and optionally return captured groups
• <Expression> =~ s/pattern/replacement/flags -- Replace parts of a string using a regular expression pattern and optionally executing functions on the matched groups

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

Multithreading Functions

• ThreadCreate( <name>, <function> ) -- Create a new thread and start it off executing a function or some code
• ThreadSleep( <name> ) -- Freeze a thread and make it sleep
• ThreadResume( <name> ) -- Unfreeze a thread and allow it to continue execution
• ThreadState( <name> ) -- Returns state of a thread
• ThreadKill( <name> ) -- Terminate a thread and remove it from the script
• ThreadExists( <name> ) -- Check if a thread exists by this name
• ThreadName( ) -- Returns the name of the current thread that is executing this code
• Threads( ) -- Return an array of all threads

Variable Type Conversions

• Char( <expression> ) -- Returns the single letter representation of an expression
• Byte( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 8-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• SByte( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 8-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Short( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 16-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Int16( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 16-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Int32( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 32-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Int( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 32-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Int64( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 64-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Long( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 64-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• UShort( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 16-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• UInt16( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 16-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• UInt32( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 32-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• UInt( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 32-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• UInt64( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 64-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• ULong( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 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

Misc

• Unset( $variable ) -- Delete a variable

Arrays

• Reset( $variable ) -- Reset the current array pointer to the first element
• Next( $variable ) -- Set the array pointer to the next element
• Prev( $variable ) -- Set the array pointer to the previous element

Type Checking

• isVarChar( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a char type
• isVarByte( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 8-bit integer type
• isVarSByte( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 8-bit integer type
• isVarShort( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 16-bit integer type
• isVarInt16( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 16-bit integer type
• isVarInt( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 32-bit integer type
• isVarInt32( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 32-bit integer type
• isVarInt64( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 64-bit integer type
• isVarLong( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 64-bit integer type
• isVarUShort( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 16-bit integer type
• isVarUInt16( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 16-bit integer type
• isVarUInt( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 32-bit integer type
• isVarUInt32( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 32-bit integer type
• isVarUInt64( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 64-bit integer type
• isVarULong( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 64-bit integer type
• isVarFloat( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a single precision floating point type
• isVarDouble( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a double precision floating point type
• isVarString( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a string type
• isVarNumber( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is any integer or float/double type
• isVarBinary( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a binary type
• isVarRef( $variable ) -- Check if a variable is an reference to another variable
• isVarArray( $variable ) -- Check if a variable is an array
• isVarObj( $variable, <type> ) -- Check if a variable is an object type (This includes classes, file handles etc)
• isVarClass( $variable, <type> ) -- Check if a variable's object type is a class

Binary Data Management Functions

• Pack( <expression>, <expressions> ) -- Pack data into a binary array
• Unpack( <expression>, <binary-array> ) -- Unpack data from a binary array
• BinaryCreate( <size>, <fill> ) -- Create a new binary variable and its array size and fill data type
• 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
• 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> ) -- Calculates the arctangent of a number
• BitAND( <expression> ) --
• BitNOT( <expression> ) --
• BitOR( <expression> ) --
• BitROTATE( <expression> ) --
• BitSHIFT( <value>, <shift> ) -- Performs a bit shifting operation
• BitXOR( <expression> ) --
• Ceiling( <expression> ) --
• Cos( <expression> ) --
• Cosh( <expression> ) --
• Exp( <expression> ) --
• Floor( <expression> ) --
• Log( <expression> ) --
• Math( <expression> ) --
• Max( <expression> ) --
• Min( <expression> ) --
• Mod( <expression> ) --
• Pow( <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> ) --
• isEmpty( <expression> ) --
• isFloat( <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> ) --
• Repeat( <expression>, <count>, <flag> ) -- Create a new string or new array containing repeats of a string provided
• 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
• UBound( <array/binary-array> ) -- Returns the size of array (How many elements it currently has stored)
• Push( <array>, <expressions> ) -- Add items to the end of an array
• Unshift( <array>, <expressions> ) -- Add items to the beginning of an array
• Pop( <array> ) -- Delete the first item in an array
• Shift( <array> ) -- Delete the last item in an array

File Functions

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>, <binary-array> ) -- 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
• FileReadBinary( <file>, <expression> ) -- Read a number of bytes from a previously opened 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 <expressions> -- Returns a result from a Function.
• Throw( <expression> ) -- Throw an exception.
• Eval( <expression>, <flag> ) -- Evaluate a string as Sputnik code.
• GC( <flag> ) -- Use the garbage collector.
• Require( <file>, <flag> ) -- Add all functions etc from a file for use.
• Include( <file>, <flag> ) -- Add all functions etc from a file for use and execute all expressions.

User Defined Functions

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