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Ronibi
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Hello

we have a field, 16 characters long. It can be filled with:
1. 8 characters and 8 spaces ('ABCDEFGH ')
2. 10 characters and 6 spaces ('ABCDEFGHIJ ')
3. 13 characters and 3 spaces ('ABCDEFGHIJKLM ')

etc etc. All combinations are possible whereby the spaces are always trailing.

The user wants to have the last three filled positons of the field.
So for 1. that is FGH, for 2. HIJ and for 3. KLM

This has to be done in the DEFINE box in InfoAssist.
I tried substring, arglen, rjust, trim but ir doesn't work. I need a combination of two functions.

Can I embed two functions in the DEFINE box for one DEFINE??

Regards
Ron

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MartinY
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You can combine as many function as you want until you do respect each function element's type and format.
Sample
N_FLD /A20V = LJUST(20, (TRIMV('B', MyFld, 20, ' ', 1, 'A20V'), 'A20V');

Or you create multiple DEFINEd fields and reuse them in another DEFINEd field
T_FLD /A20V = TRIMV('B', MyFld, 20, ' ', 1, 'A20V');
L_FLD /A20V = LJUST(20, T_FLD, 'A20V');


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https://webfocusinfocenter.inf...cterSimplified70.htm

https://webfocusinfocenter.inf...urce/func_opener.htm


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Ronibi
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Hai all

I wanted to do this in one DEFINE.
In the end with your tips I succeeded.

SUBSTRING(FIELD_A,CHAR_LENGTH ( RTRIM(FIELD_A)) - 2, 3)

The simplified character functions helped me out

Thanks to you guys

Regards
Ron


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