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Is there a way to define a new field that is a portion of an existing field? I have an A8 field and I only want to work with the first 6 positions.


WebFOCUS 7.6
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Hi Baron - try using the EDIT function. It would look something like this:

EDIT (fieldname , '999999$$')

I'm sure there are more elegant ways to do this with a Substring function.


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Thanks TMoorthy. That did the trick.


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baron, I would suggest checking out the Functions manual,and perhaps getting some training, as this is very basic stuff.


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