Scan function for IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)
Scan searches the specified substring within a string and returns the starting position of the substring.
In this video, Scan will be used to find the substring within a string and apply it in the rule to populate the Commission measure in the Product Scorecard cube.
Where can the Scan function be used?
Rules and TurboIntegrator
Which TM1 Server version is the Scan function available for?
Version 11 and 12
What is the syntax for Fill?
Scan(Substring, String)
- Substring = A text string
- String = A text string
Relevant Functions
- CapIt = capitalises the first letter of every word in a string
- Char = Converts the ASCII numeric code into the character
- Code = Converts the character to the ASCII numeric code
- CodeW = Returns the UTF-8 numeric code for a specified character within a string
- Delet = Deletes a specified number of characters from a specified position within a string
- Fill = Repeats a string to the specified number of lengths
- Insrt = Inserts one string into another string at the given position number
- Long = Returns the length of the string
- Lower = converts text characters to lowercase
- Numbr = Converts string character to a number
- Scan = Searches the specified substring within a string and returns the starting position of the substring
- Str = Converts number to a string character
- SubSt = Returns the substring of a specified string
- Trim = Removes any leading and trailing spaces from a string
- Upper = Converts text characters to upper case