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YKK
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Hi

I need to define a field that will look for the word Rush in a comment field and will equal 1 if it does and 0 if it does not

I am not trying to find only the record with Rush in it but just show which record have and which don't

Problem is that comment field can show " Please ship rush ", " this order is rush ", " Rush order " and so on as these comment are not always enter by the same user

This is something I never did before and help would be greatly appreciated

Thank you.

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BabakNYC
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Assuming you're running 8.2xx, try the POSITION function and count the ones that have a value not equal to 0.

https://webfocusinfocenter.inf.../source/position.htm


In this example I'm flagging the records that have 'GER' in the field COUNTRY.
  

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY CAR
COMPUTE GER_IN_COUNTRY/I2=POSITION('GER', COUNTRY); NOPRINT
COMPUTE RECORDS_WITH_GER/I2=IF GER_IN_COUNTRY NE 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0;
END

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MartinY
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And since the case may be important

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY CAR
COMPUTE GER_IN_COUNTRY/I2=POSITION('GER', UPCASE(10, COUNTRY, 'A10')); NOPRINT
COMPUTE RECORDS_WITH_GER/I2=IF GER_IN_COUNTRY NE 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0;
END


WF versions : Prod 8.2.04M gen 33, Dev 8.2.04M gen 33, OS : Windows, DB : MSSQL, Outputs : HTML, Excel, PDF
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jfr99
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There's also "CONTAINS" ...

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT MODEL
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
END
-*
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT MODEL
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
WHERE MODEL CONTAINS 'AUTO' OR 'III'
END


You would still need to deal with mixed case values.


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BabakNYC
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MartinY has a point. I'd upcase the values before checking.

FYI, there's now a simplified UPPER(fieldname) function that's slightly easier than UPCASE. 

  
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY CAR
COMPUTE GER_IN_COUNTRY/I2=POSITION('GER', UPPER(COUNTRY)); NOPRINT
COMPUTE RECORDS_WITH_GER/I2=IF GER_IN_COUNTRY NE 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0;
END


Regarding CONTAINS, I agree that's another way of approaching the issue. You could also use LIKE. Many ways to get to the same outcome.


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MartinY
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quote:
there's now a simplified UPPER(fieldname) function that's slightly easier than UPCASE

Old habits Smiler


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dhagen
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The REGEX function returns 1 or 0 based on match:

This does a case insensitive search for the word "imports". 

DEFINE FILE GGPRODS
IMP/I5 = REGEX(VENDOR_NAME,'(?i)\bimports\b');
END
TABLE FILE GGPRODS
PRINT *  IMP
END


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