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Quote Woody Replybullet Topic: Wildcards in formulas
    Posted: 07 Mar 2007 at 11:31am
I am fairly new to Crystal Reports, but have done a lot of work previously in Access.
 
My Query......I am writing an IF statement. I am looking into a field in the report, and if the text in that field matches my example, it writes something in a new field.
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WhilePrintingRecords;
StringVar CONN;
 
if ({Piping.SHORT_DESC} = "PIPE")
    then (CONN := "BE")
    else if ({Piping.SHORT_DESC} = "WT")
    then (CONN := "BW")
    else if ({Piping.SHORT_DESC} = "WTR")
    then (CONN := "BW")
    else (CONN := "-")
 
To cut the code down I just want to capture all the items starting with W (WT & WTR) and assign them to BW.
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Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 07 Mar 2007 at 11:46am
To get the first letter of a string, you can use the code:
if Left({Piping.SHORT_DESC}, 1)="W"
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Quote Woody Replybullet Posted: 07 Mar 2007 at 11:51am
Awesome - Thanks
 
Sooooooooo easy when you know how Smile
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