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Vera T
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Hello,

I am using webfocus development studio 8.009

I have a master file with several columns for Invoice number. Can someone please tell me if there is an easy way to merge this 4 columns (INV1, INV2, INV3, INV4)together into a column INVNO?

here is the fex file:

TABLE FILE CT_SHIP
PRINT
CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.MAST
CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV1/A7
CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV2
CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV3
CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV4
WHERE CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.SHIPDT EQ &SHIPDT.SHIPDT:.;
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
INCLUDE = IBFS:/EDA/EDASERVE/_EDAHOME/ETC/endeflt.sty,
$
ENDSTYLE
END

thanks,

Vera

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Emily McAllister>,


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BabakNYC
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One possible way to do it is to use MATCH.

MATCH FILE CAR
BY CAR 
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'FRANCE';
RUN
FILE CAR
BY CAR
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND';
AFTER MATCH HOLD OLD-OR-NEW
END
TABLE FILE HOLD
PRINT CAR
END


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Vera T
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thank you


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eric.woerle
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much easier with a compute...

 
TABLE FILE CT_SHIP
PRINT 
CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.MAST
CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV1/A7
CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV2
CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV3
CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV4
COMPUTE INV/A100V=CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV1 | CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV2 | CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV3 | CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.INV4 ;
WHERE CT_SHIP.CT_SHIP.SHIPDT EQ &SHIPDT.SHIPDT:.;
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD 
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
INCLUDE = IBFS:/EDA/EDASERVE/_EDAHOME/ETC/endeflt.sty,
$
ENDSTYLE
END


The | Character does a soft concatenation preserving trailing spaces and the || does a hard concatenation, suppressing trailing spaces.


Eric Woerle
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Waz
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I agree with eric,

Concatenate "|" is probably the best way.


Waz...

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Vivian
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Or try the universal concatenation with MORE


Vivian Perlmutter
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Wep5622
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If those INV1..4 fields are numeric, you'll probably want to convert them to strings when concatenating them into a single field using compute.

See the Help on FPRINT and EDIT for that.


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Vera T
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Thanks for all the reply.


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