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Returns the characters in a string in reverse order, recognizing surrogate pairs.
string A string or expression that evaluates to a string.
$WREVERSE returns the characters in string in reverse order. $WREVERSE is functionally identical to $REVERSE, except that $WREVERSE recognizes surrogate pairs. You can use the $WISWIDE function to determine if a string contains a surrogate pair.
A surrogate pair is a pair of 16-bit Caché character elements that together encode a single Unicode character. Surrogate pairs are used to represent certain ideographs which are used in Chinese, Japanese kanji, and Korean hanja. (Most commonly-used Chinese, kanji, and hanja characters are represented by standard 16-bit Unicode encodings.) Surrogate pairs provide Caché support for the Japanese JIS X0213:2004 (JIS2004) encoding standard and the Chinese GB18030 encoding standard.
The $WREVERSE function counts a surrogate pair as a single character. The $REVERSE function treats a surrogate pair as two characters. In all other aspects, $WREVERSE and $REVERSE are functionally identical. However, because $REVERSE is generally faster than $WREVERSE, $REVERSE is preferable for all cases where a surrogate pair is not likely to be encountered.
For further details on reversing strings, refer to the $REVERSE function.
The following example shows how $WREVERSE treats a surrogate pair as a single character:
  IF $SYSTEM.Version.IsUnicode()  {
  SET str="AB"_spair_"CD"
    WRITE !,"String before reversing:"
    ZZDUMP str
  SET wrev=$WREVERSE(str)
    WRITE !,"$WREVERSE did not reverse surrogate pair:"
    ZZDUMP wrev
  SET rev=$REVERSE(str)
    WRITE !,"$REVERSE reversed surrogate pair:"
    ZZDUMP rev
  ELSE {WRITE "This example requires a Unicode installation of Caché"}
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