You can use intrinsic functions to determine the ordinal position of a character in the collating sequence, to find the largest or smallest item in a series, to find the length of data item, or to determine when a program was compiled.
Use these intrinsic functions:
related concepts
Unicode and the encoding of language characters
related tasks
Evaluating single characters for collating sequence
Finding the largest or smallest data item
Finding the length of data items
Finding the date of compilation