Table 2.

DicomEdit built-in functions

Function name	Arguments	Description
format	Format string, value-1, value-2, …	Formats the given values using the provided format string, using the same formatting syntax as the Java class java.text.MessageFormat.
getURL	URL	Retrieves the content of the resource at the provided URL; if a username and password are included in the URL, uses HTTP Basic Authentication.
lowercase	String	Converts all uppercase characters in the argument to lowercase.
match	Value, regexp, index	Matches the value against the provided regular expression and returns the content of the contained matching group with the given index. This is a more powerful and flexible method for extracting substrings than the index-based substring function.
replace	String, target, replacement	Replaces all occurrences of target in the given string with replacement.
substring	String, start-index, end-index	Returns a substring of string beginning at character number start-index (where the first character has index 0) and extending to character number end-index-1.
uppercase	String	Converts all lowercase characters in the argument to uppercase.
urlEncode	String	Encodes the given value so that it can be embedded in a URL.