Re: OT: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-18 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of Jim Fox Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:03 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field You mean works incorrectly. LOL. F Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-18 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of Jim Fox Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:03 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field You mean works incorrectly. LOL. F Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From

OT: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-16 Thread Jason Miller
the column to NULL. Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of Jim Fox Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:03 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field You mean works

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-16 Thread Joe D'Souza
-Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of Jason Miller Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 3:29 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: OT: Extracting digits from a character field ** This might start a whole new debate

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-16 Thread Jason Miller
*To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* OT: Extracting digits from a character field ** This might start a whole new debate (and kind of what I am looking to do)... I remember learning that train of though (use an AL to run on the client and use their resources when you can and built filters

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-15 Thread cpgold
) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of Jim Fox Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:03 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field You mean works incorrectly. LOL. F Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Joe

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-15 Thread cpgold
a character field You mean works incorrectly. LOL. F Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:25:31 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field You

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-15 Thread cpgold
]on Behalf Of Jim Fox Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:03 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field You mean works incorrectly. LOL. F Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-15 Thread cpgold
Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field You mean works incorrectly. LOL. F Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:25:31 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting

Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Atul Vohra
I have a free form character field and need to extract digits from that field - may be in a filter? Am on v7.1, oracle. Any one has some function they used (like in sql or may be combination of strstr??) Looks painful to me. Help please Atul

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, I would probably loop through the whole string. There are several ways to do this, and if the text is not too big, this could be a way to do it using three filters in a filter-guide. run-if() set-fields tmpStr = $string$ tmpStrDigits = $NULL$ #loop runif('tmpStr' LIKE [0-9]%) #

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
/regexp.html Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Atul Vohra Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Extracting digits from a character field I have a free form character field

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Joe D'Souza
it a shot if MS-SQL is your underlying database. Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of Atul Vohra Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Extracting digits from a character field

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Fox
On MS-SQL, trying to replace one character with Null is not a good idea. Fluxman --Original Message-- From: Joe D'Souza Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ReplyTo: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Apr 14, 2010 11:07 Subject: Re: Extracting digits from

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Joe D'Souza
: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:12 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field On MS-SQL, trying to replace one character with Null is not a good idea. Fluxman --Original Message-- From: Joe D'Souza Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Murnane, Phil
(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Jim Fox Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:12 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field On MS-SQL, trying to replace one character with Null is not a good idea. Fluxman --Original Message-- From: Joe

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Fox
11:42:21 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field Jim, Just curious.. What are the limitations that you encountered replacing a character or a string with NULL on MS-SQL.. And what version of MS-SQL?? Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Joe D'Souza
...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of Jim Fox Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:00 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field Replaciing a character with Null is an oxymoron in MS-SQL. You would replace a character with a zero-length string. Null and are not the same

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Fox
You mean works incorrectly. LOL. F Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:25:31 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field You are right, I just tried

Re: Extracting digits from a character field

2010-04-14 Thread Joe D'Souza
-Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of Jim Fox Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:03 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting digits from a character field You mean works incorrectly. LOL. F Sent from my