Intrinsic conversions are a set of built-in conversions that handles common needs in programming a commercial web site.

In the following descriptions, the input string is passed by value instead of by reference (unless explicitly specified).  It does not matter when converting a value, but when converting a variable, the changes will NOT be reflected on the variable.

Example:

var x = "apple";

var x conv="uppercase" display=1;     // display "APPLE"

display "{x}";                // x is still "apple"

var y = "{x}" conv="uppercase";

display "{y}";                // y is "APPLE"

Note: Convert-by-reference has a "side-effect" that an undefined variable will be defined after being converted by reference.

In the following descriptions of BEE Conversions, when a true or false is said to be returned, in fact, a literal 1 or 0 will be return respectively.  You can use the result quoted or unquoted.  They means the same.  However, quoting even a boolean is safer in case there's a program bug that set a boolean-to-be as a null string.

The following is a list of Intrinsic BEE Conversions.