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I use the EDIT function a lot to truncate long fields so the data will fit on a report. So, for example, I would like the first 5 characters of a 45-character field. But I really dont want to be bothered typing $ 40 times ...

It seems to me that I saw something like this recently, but it doesn't work for me, so I'm hoping someone will supply the correct syntax ...
DEFINE FILE BLAHBLAH
SHORTFIELD/A5 = EDIT(LONGFIELD, '9999$*')
END


.. and while we are at it, any other neat tricks with EDIT - and yes, I know I could use SUBSTR, but I am a dinosaur ....

George

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WebFOCUS 7.7.05 Windows, Linux, DB2, IBM Lotus Notes, Firebird, Lotus Symphony/OpenOffice. Outputs PDF, Excel 2007 (for OpenOffice integration), WP
 
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If it is a varchar column, A40V, do:

DEFINE FILE BLAHBLAH
XCOL1/A40 = LONGFIELD;
XCOL2/A5 = EDIT(XCOL1, '99999');
END

If not a varchar, then XCOL2 will work fine...

XCOL2/A5 = EDIT(LONGFIELD, '99999');


hth


Tom Flynn
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