ANS85 The REVERSE Function

The REVERSE function returns a character string whose length and characters are exactly the same as argument-1, except that the characters are in reverse order. The type of this function depends on the argument type as follows:

Argument Type Function Type
Alphabetic Alphanumeric
Alphanumeric Alphanumeric
MFNational MFNational
General Format
Arguments
  1. Argument-1 must be class alphabetic, alphanumeric

    MFor national

    and must be at least one character in length.

Returned Values
  1. If argument-1 is a character string of length n, the returned value is a character string of length n such that for 1 <j < n, the character in position j of the returned value is the character from position n-j+1 of argument-1.