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    Left trim ?

    Question, I know you can use left trim to reduce a field lenght.

    I want to take a "Character" Field which has a name and number. example: tom * 123456

    and trim everything after the * BTW I can not number eliminate the numbers, cause some names contain numbers.

    Does anyone know which function to use?

    Thanks,
    john

    #2
    Re: Left trim ?

    dim nme as c = "tom * 1234"
    dim nme2 as c
    nme2 = *word_remove(nme, 2, " ")
    ? alltrim(*word_remove(nme2, 2, " "))
    = "tom"
    Dave Mason
    [email protected]
    Skype is dave.mason46

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      #3
      Re: Left trim ?

      Thank you dave can you use Dim functions in Qbuilder?
      John

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        #4
        Re: Left trim ?

        I really do not know anything about qbuilder.

        There are other ways to accomplish the above. Some are simpler? This was quick just using help and not looking a whole lot.
        Dave Mason
        [email protected]
        Skype is dave.mason46

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          #5
          Re: Left trim ?

          John,
          QRB is built upon Alpha and has almost every functionality it has.

          take a "Character" Field which has a name and number. example: tom * 123456

          and trim everything after the *
          The following assumes that there will only be one "*" in the string to be parsed....and that every record will have same.
          I take it as you also want the "*" included. So if doing this for all the data in a field:
          Code:
          Maybe word(your_field_name, 1, "*") + " *"
          or just for the example given:
          Code:
          word("tom * 123456", 1, "*") + " *"
          [/CODE]
          Mike
          __________________________________________
          It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
          It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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            #6
            Re: Left trim ?

            Mike sorry I would like to delete the * and everything to the right of it ..

            John

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              #7
              Re: Left trim ?

              Code:
              a="tom * 123456"
              ?a
              = "tom * 123456"
              
              ?word(a,1,"*")
              = "tom "
              ?word(a,1," *")
              = "tom"
              Al Buchholz
              Bookwood Systems, LTD
              Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

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              Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
              Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
              When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
              "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
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                #8
                Re: Left trim ?

                Here's yet another approach:

                Code:
                substr(a, 1, at("*", a)-1)
                This extracts a substring from the string in the variable named "a", beginning at position 1 and continuing to one position before the asterisk.

                And more simply:

                Code:
                left(a, at("*",a)-1)

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                  #9
                  Re: Left trim ?

                  Thanks that worked.
                  left(a, at("*",a)-1)
                  John

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                    #10
                    Re: Left trim ?

                    Wow, Tom,

                    I did not remember that one and jyust did not spend the time I should have in the help files.
                    Dave Mason
                    [email protected]
                    Skype is dave.mason46

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                      #11
                      Re: Left trim ?

                      Now that we know word() works to take out the characters to the right.

                      What do you change if you want to take out all characters to the left of a *?

                      Thanks
                      John

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                        #12
                        Re: Left trim ?

                        Use the appropriate word number (argument 2) or the number of word (argument 4)
                        WORD1.PNG

                        It may help to think in terms of what do I get rather than what am I eliminating... (it's always good to be positive..)
                        Last edited by Al Buchholz; 05-23-2011, 02:23 PM.
                        Al Buchholz
                        Bookwood Systems, LTD
                        Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

                        Occam's Razor - KISS
                        Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
                        Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
                        When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
                        "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
                        Albert Einstein

                        http://www.iadn.com/images/media/iadn_member.png

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                          #13
                          Re: Left trim ?

                          Thanks Al the problem I face is, the total words are not the same for each part number. I have one word which will always stay the same (Lot No.:) so I would like to take out all words leading up to the ":"

                          Example: USP 40-80 Mesh Packed in 50 kg. drums Lot No.: 1135
                          Result: 1135


                          John

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                            #14
                            Re: Left trim ?

                            Code:
                            a="USP 40-80 Mesh Packed in 50 kg. drums Lot No.: 1135"
                            
                            ?a
                            
                            ?word(a,1,":")
                            = "USP 40-80 Mesh Packed in 50 kg. drums Lot No."
                            
                            ?word(a,2,":")
                            = " 1135"
                            It took me a while to wrap my head around 'word()'

                            In this case the word count is not limited to the 'classic word' - ie there are not 11 words in your string when you delimited by ":" - there are only 2 - since there is only one ":" in the string...
                            Al Buchholz
                            Bookwood Systems, LTD
                            Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

                            Occam's Razor - KISS
                            Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
                            Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
                            When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
                            "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
                            Albert Einstein

                            http://www.iadn.com/images/media/iadn_member.png

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                              #15
                              Re: Left trim ?

                              That makes it easy :) Thanks Al

                              John
                              Last edited by Al Buchholz; 05-23-2011, 04:40 PM.

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