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FrankDutch
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I'm building a fex that needs an address field.

The address is build out of several components (alphanumeric) which are sometimes empty.
We want a comma in between the componants, but if a field is empty, we now get two comma's.
How can we avoid that.




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
test: WF 7.6.10 on the same platform and databases,IE7

 
Posts: 2387 | Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Registered: December 03, 2006Report This Post
Alan B
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A piece of code I have had for years:
  
-*N Shuffle sort addresses to strip out blank lines
    P_ADDRESS_1/A31  = IF P.ADDRESS_1 EQ ' '
                         THEN ' '
                         ELSE P.ADDRESS_1||',';
    P_ADDRESS_2/A31  = IF P.ADDRESS_2 EQ ' '
                         THEN ' '
                         ELSE P.ADDRESS_2||',';
    P_ADDRESS_3/A31  = IF P.ADDRESS_3 EQ ' '
                     THEN ' '
                         ELSE P.ADDRESS_3||',';
    P_TOWN     /A21  = IF P.TOWN EQ ' '
                     THEN ' '
                     ELSE P.TOWN||'~';
    P_COUNTRY  /A21  = IF P.COUNTRY EQ ' '
                         THEN ' '
                         ELSE P.COUNTRY||',';
    P_ADDRESS_PC/A16  = IF P.ADDRESS_PC EQ ' '
                         THEN ' '
                         ELSE P.ADDRESS_PC||',';
    P_ADDRESS_STR/A160= P_ADDRESS_1||
                        P_ADDRESS_2||
                        P_ADDRESS_3||
                        P_TOWN||
                        P_COUNTRY||
                        P_ADDRESS_PC;

A better way may be to concatenate them all with commas and use STRREP to replace 2 commas with one.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Alan B,


Alan.
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Posts: 1451 | Location: Portugal | Registered: February 07, 2007Report This Post
Leah
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As Alan says, define/computes is the way, on the STRREP I've never used it. Thanks Alan, for a new possiblility. We have to handle US and international addresses here at the university and use code similar to Alan's all the time.


Leah
 
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