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functx:chars

Converts a string to a sequence of characters

Description

The functx:chars function splits a string into individual characters and returns them as a sequence of strings of length 1 each.

Arguments and Return Type

XQuery Function Declaration

declare namespace functx = "http://www.functx.com";
declare function functx:chars
  ( $arg as xs:string? )  as xs:string* {

   for $ch in string-to-codepoints($arg)
   return codepoints-to-string($ch)
 } ;

Examples

functx:chars('abc')

('a', 'b', 'c')

functx:chars('a b c')

('a', ' ', 'b', ' ', 'c')

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