Hi Brenda The substring extraction does not vector in an I Descriptor.
One way around it is to use OCONVS() OCONVS(@RECORD<1>,"T1,4") Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Price > Sent: 19 May 2008 21:24 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [U2] multi-valued extraction > > I know I've done this before several times in fact but for > some reason, today I just can't get my dict item to work correctly. > > > > Field 1 is multivalued with 10 digit ids, I want to extract > only the first 4 digits of those ids, then read another field > with each of those extracted ids. My dict item works fine > until I add the [1,4], then only the first 4 digits of the > first 10 digit Id is returned. My co-worker with 25 years > plus experience is drawing a blank on this at the moment also. > > > > Rec<1> = 1154960101:@vm:3456960201:@vm:4565982341 > > > > Dict item comes back with 1154 only, instead of 1154, 3456, and 4565. > > > > Brenda Price > > AAC > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
