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Pops
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I want to have a column where the JUST the information between two commas is displayed. The problem, there is no set number of characters between the commas.

Sample of the information:
TUBES,SA209T1,2.750X282
TUBES,SA209T1A,1.1250X260
TUBES,SA213TP304H,1.750X300

Thanks!

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Release: WebFOCUS 8
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HTML, PDF, EXCEL
 
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Twanette
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Hi,

The GETTOK function should do just this for you.


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Pops
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GETTOK


Thank you, I'm still learning and I have never seen this one...

Can you give me an idea of the input for this?

For GETTOK I see (infield, inlength, token#, 'delim', outlength, outfield)

My infield is ITEM_DESC and I'm guessing the 'delim' would be the ,
(here is a sample of the description TUBES,SA192,4.000X150 and TUBES,SA210A1,0.875X148)


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Darryl_uk
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Here is something I have used in webfocus (not infoassist) that may be of interest.
A bit clunky perhaps...

My data field is called GNRL and has no comma at the start just at the end of the data I want.
If you have a comma in position 1 then easy enough to get rid off with edit. Else you will need
to find it and remove it too.

-*FIND POSITION OF COMMA
PSTART01/I4 = POSITV(GNRL,LENV(GNRL,'I4'), ',', 1,'I4');
-*FIND LENGTH OF SECTION BEFORE COMMA
PLEN01/I4=IF PSTART01 EQ 0 THEN 0 ELSE PSTART01 -1 ;
-*EXTRACT THE SECTION
PATTERN01/A100V= SUBSTV(500, GNRL, 1, PLEN01, PATTERN01);


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Twanette
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Hi,

OK, so if you have these values in your ITEM_DESC field:
TUBES,SA192,4.000X150
TUBES,SA210A1,0.875X148

And working on the assumption that ITEM_DESC is e.g. an A100 format
And you want SA192 and SA210A1 in a field, then GETTOK would work like this:

DEFINE FILE yourfile
NEW_FIELD/A50 =
GETTOK(ITEM_DESC, 100, 2, ',', 50, 'A50') ;
END
TABLE FILE yourfile
PRINT ITEM_DESC NEW_FIELD
END

In the above example I've specified that I want the second token i.e. I specified 2 for token#.
You should try the DEFINE with a 1 and a 3 and a -1 as well, just to see what the effect is.

Hope that helps.


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Pops
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GETTOK worked.

Thanks!


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