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trino Newbie Joined: 13 Apr 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 14	Topic: SSN data Formatting Posted: 20 Apr 2010 at 8:33am
	I am trying to compare social security numbers from two different databases and am having trouble matching them becuase one table has the socials with the dashes (111-11-1111) and the other does not (111111111). Is there a way to easily remove the dashes or add them through a formula? Are there any other options short of changing the databases? Thank you!
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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 20 Apr 2010 at 8:51am
	to remove the '-' you can create a formual field as replace({table.ssn},'-','') This will not help you join on that field though as you need to do make a change to the field before bringing it into crystal.
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trino Newbie Joined: 13 Apr 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 14	Posted: 20 Apr 2010 at 8:55am
	That did exaclty what I needed! Thank you so much!
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elamantia Newbie Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 24	Posted: 20 Sep 2011 at 8:20am
	I have the same issue. Two different databases: one with the '-' in the ssn the other without. I see how to use the replace in the formula, but how do I compare the fields before I bring it into Crystal Reports? Or how do I join the two fields? Thanks!
	minnie_eye
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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 20 Sep 2011 at 11:05am
	depedning on your source type and user rights you could use a view or stored proc to do the comparison. In crystal you could also use a command to strip the "-"
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trino Newbie Joined: 13 Apr 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 14	Posted: 20 Sep 2011 at 11:08am
	What I ended up doing was using a sub report and linking the formula field to the matching field.
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elamantia Newbie Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 24	Posted: 20 Sep 2011 at 11:27am
	DBLANK, View and Stored Procedures are not an option for me. By 'command to strip the "-" ' do you mean the Replace? If so, how & when do you link the two ssn fields? Trino, The subreport is a good idea... I'll try it. Thanks for all the help!!
	minnie_eye
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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 20 Sep 2011 at 11:34am
	you can use a crystal command as your source (replacing for the table that has the dashes in the SSN). When you go to add a table via the databse expert there is an Add Command option usually above the DB name. Double click it and it will open a screen to write your command. When writing the command you can use a replace function to strip out the dashes. Example: select , REPLACE(SSN, '-', '') AS SSN_2* from tablename Now you can add the second table (the one without the dashes already) and join the table and command together on table.SSN = command.SSN_2 Edited by DBlank - 20 Sep 2011 at 11:37am
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elamantia Newbie Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 24	Posted: 20 Sep 2011 at 12:42pm
	DBLANK, Wonderful! I just had to change the command a little. I was getting an 'ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected' error. I changed the command to select REPLACE (SSN, '-', '') AS SSN_2 from IND_TBLINDIVIDUAL Thank you all for your help!
	minnie_eye
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