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Rajiv Garg
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In focus mainframes, the normal way to truncate a field is '99999$$$$$', so it will give me first 5 bytes of 10 byte field. Now i have a 70 bytes field and i need to take first 30 bytes. since 70 bytes is much large to accomodate in single line. So how can i take the first 30 bytes of this field? or is there another way of doing that.

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Waz
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Please check out the function SUBSTR in the documentation.


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Please check out the function SUBSTR in the documentation.


Yes, it worked for me. Thanks


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FYI
When using EDIT in FOCUS or WebFOCUS you only need to mask the positions that you are using. So to extract the first 5 postitions of any string you would need:
S/A5=EDIT(Y,'99999');

IF you want the second 5, you would need
S/A5=EDIT(Y,'$$$$$99999');

You only need to mask the entire string if the characters you want are at the end.


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