Todd, thanks very much for your help. The below function is working!
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Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 3:53 PM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Labor Note
IIF(INDEX(MaxLaborNote,'.') > 0,
NUMERIC(SUBSTRING(MaxLaborNote,INDEX(MaxLaborNote,'.') - 1,3)),
NUMERIC(SUBSTRING(MaxLaborNote,INDEX(MaxLaborNote,'Oper') - 2,1)))
Try the above (assuming the result of the aggregate was MaxLaborNote).
If there is a decimal point in the string then it will take the 3
characters starting at one position left of that point. Otherwise it
will look for "Oper" and count back 2 positions and use that one
character (the integer).
-Todd C.
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From:
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Of Mark Smith
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 3:46 PM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Labor Note
Yes for example, when the number of operators is entered as a whole
number everything after 'position' 1 is the oper...., so I want to
ignore everything but the integer. I am getting confused as I begin to
encapsulate functions. Does the above make sense?
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Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 3:38 PM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Labor Note
Perhaps post a couple examples because I am not real clear what you
mean.
When it is not an integer (say perhaps 3.5) are you getting other
character beyond the 5 or is it the .5 you want to ignore? If it is
just spaces trailing at the end (like "3.5 ") you could use the
Right-Trim function before converting the string to numeric. For
controling things like the exact locations in the substring function the
INDEX fucntion is pretty good for identifying the location of the
decimal point.
-Todd C.
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From:
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Of innerpac_il
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 2:46 PM
To:
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Subject: [Vantage] Re: Labor Note
Todd I have two different scenarios using a SubString, but I can't
figure out how to ignore characters after the decimal point it not
an interger.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Todd Caughey" <caugheyt@...> wrote:
>
> This is a little klutzy so there might be a better way but...
> First run the LaborNote through an aggregate function (like
Maximum and call it something else like MaxLaborNote) because it is
a Memo type field and RB chokes on them. Running through an
aggregate gets around that.
> Then a function field like....
> NUMERIC(TRIM(REPLACE(REPLACE(MaxLaborNote,'Operator',''),'s','')))
>
> ...and I think this would only work if this is ALL that is in the
note field though. If there is other text you might need to do
something like a SUBSTRING function on the INDEX position of "Oper"
minus some number of characters - the fly in the ointment is the
variable nature of the operator numbers (2,2.5,3, etc...) so it gets
trickier to find the start and end of the actual number. But I'm
sure it could be done...like assume all integers are only one digit
and all decimal numbers are 3 (with the decimal point) and have two
fuctions...one for if there is a "." prior to the "oper" characters
and another if there is no "."
>
> Anyway, the above might offer some starting places.
> -Todd C.
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Behalf Of innerpac_il
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 11:00 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] RE: Labor Note
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>
> I am writing a report using report builder (still on v6.1) using
the
> Labor Note field. We record the number of operators/job using
this
> field, but also included the word operator(s). I have since asked
> that only a number be included in this field, but I need to get
> historical data using this field, so need to convert it to a
numeric.
>
> My challenge is parsing out the word operator or operators,
getting to
> the only the number and then converting to numeric(2.5 operators -
for
> instance), so I can do calculations with this field. Is it
possible
> to perform these functions?
>
> Mark Smith
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