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Getting Charaters after "_"

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Category: Crystal Reports 9 through 2022
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Topic: Getting Charaters after "_"
Posted By: Tompong
Subject: Getting Charaters after "_"
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2013 at 12:14pm
Can any one help me to get character after "_" Im having a hard time figuring it out.

Thanks


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Posted By: DBlank
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2013 at 4:27am
use instr() to find the location of the character in the string and then mid() to start looking at the field after that.
something like
mid(field,instr(field,"-")+1)

Posted By: hilfy
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2013 at 10:54am
Another way to do it might be to do something like this:
 
StringVar Array sa := split({myTable.myField}, '_');
 
if (uBound(sa) > 1) then  sa[2]
else sa[1]
 
This splits the string into an array of strings based on the location of the '_' character and then returns the second element which should be the string after the '_' character.
 
-Dell


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Posted By: Tompong
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2013 at 11:00am
works perfectly.

Thanks


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