IText versus IString

Earlier releases of IBM Open Class relied more on IString than on IText, which is designed to replace it. Nevertheless, IString remains useful for certain functions, such as numeric formatting and parsing, case conversion, language-sensitive or case-insensitive searching, iterative find and replace, and space padding. While IText is usually a better choice, the differences are summarized here:

Use IText:

Note that IText has:

 

Use IString:

Note that IString: