Utility Functions
Utility functions enable you to manipulate lists. For example, you could use utility functions to determine whether a particular element exists in a list of Rational Statemate elements. Or, you could sort these lists to make reports easier to read. You can also use utility functions to manipulate strings of characters—to locate string patterns in a given string and to extract portions of strings. Most utility functions for lists can manipulate lists of any item type, but are usually used for lists of Rational Statemate elements.
Utility functions do not extract information from the database; however, some utility functions use database information to complete their operations. These functions enable you to manipulate the information you have already retrieved using single-element or query functions.