Operations on character values

The Informix® ESQL/C function library provides the following functions to perform operations on null-terminated strings.
Function name Description
ldchar() Copies a fixed-length string to a null-terminated string
rdownshift() Converts all letters to lowercase
rupshift() Converts all letters to uppercase
stcat() Concatenates one null-terminated string to another
stchar() Copies a null-terminated string to a fixed-length string
stcmpr() Compares two null-terminated strings
stcopy() Copies one null-terminated string to another string
stleng() Counts the number of bytes in a null-terminated string