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Gagan Marwah
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Hello, I am trying to achieve something that is rather tricky. I am new to WebFocus and don't really know how to go about this.

I am creating 2 reports, which have same fields with the only exception being excluding and including data based on Characters in field name.

Example 1: IF server name is 9 characters long AND IF first two characters are either R1 or R3 AND fifth character is either P or V then do not include these in output.


Example 2: (Total opposite of ex.1)

IF server name is 9 characters long
AND IF first two characters are either R1 or R3 AND fifth character is either P or V then ONLY include these in output.


Can someone help me with this matter? If there is a way to create ONE define for each scenario that would be very ideal.

Thank you in advance!

Regards,
Gagan

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Tony A
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Most things are possible as you see below. The only thing I would suggest that you do, would be to check the SQL generated by your request and check that it is efficient.

There are many posts regarding trapping SQL.

DEFINE FILE GGSALES
  DO_I_WANT_IT/A1 = IF ARGLEN(20,CITY,'I11') EQ 7 AND EDIT(CITY,'9$$99$') IN ('Cca','Hst') THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N';
END

TABLE FILE GGSALES
  SUM DOLLARS
      DO_I_WANT_IT
   BY REGION
   BY ST
   BY CITY
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     INCLUDE = warm,
$
ENDSTYLE
END


T


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BabakNYC
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quote:
excluding and including data based on Characters in field name.


If I understand this right, you want to include only columns with specific values in their name. If that's the case you'll probably have to first parse out the metadata and hold the output and then use the hold file to create the report you're trying to assemble. If this is correct you have to look at the table called SYSCOLUM. Here's an example of how you can query the metadata for car file:
TABLE FILE SYSCOLUM
PRINT NAME
BY TBNAME
WHERE TBNAME EQ 'CAR';
END


You can find out what's available in SYSCOLUM by issuing this command:
 ?FF SYSCOLUM


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Martin vK
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Take a look at the REGEX function. Very powerful, if you know how to make regular expressions.

Martin.


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Wep5622
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I was under the impression that WF does not have a REGEX function, but in this case I'd be rather happy to be proven wrong.

Could you point to where it's documented?


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Tony A
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For variables yes but I was not aware that it applied to DEFINEs.

Document link - 8th item in right hand list.

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Wep5622
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I did some testing. Apparently it also exists as a function that requires 3 parameters, but which is which???

I tried a couple of things without much success:
-SET &XA = REGEX('^\d{4}$', '1234', '');
-SET &YA = REGEX('1234', '^\d{4}$', '');
-SET &ZA = REGEX('1234', '', '^\d{4}$');
-TYPE &XA / &YA / &ZA


Which promisingly results in: 1 / 1 / 0

-SET &XB = REGEX('^\d{4}$', 'abcd', '');
-SET &YB = REGEX('abcd', '^\d{4}$', '');
-SET &ZB = REGEX('abcd', '', '^\d{4}$');
-TYPE &XB / &YB / &ZB


Which also results in: 1 / 1 / 0

It does not appear that the third parameter is for the return type, as usual. I think it may be for REGEX flags, such as 'g' for 'global search' (repeated matches in the same string, for example), but that's just a guess based on what I know of other REGEX implementations...

And... if we have a function REGEX, do we also have related functions that use the result of a REGEX for, say, string replacement? Just knowing that a string matches a pattern is often not that useful.


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Francis Mariani
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As is usual, new features are not well documented when they first appear.

In the v8.2.02 online documentation (that uses crazy, not book-markable navigation) look for Reporting Language > Using Functions > Simplified Character Functions > REGEX.

There are two arguments: 
REGEX(string, regular_expression)

And there's this regarding regular expressions: "For a basic summary, see the section Summary of Regular Expressions in Chapter 2, Security, of the Server Administration manual." - seems like an odd place to be sent to...

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