Are you doing this directly in the update action? If you are, you must first extract the value of the column url, assign it to a variable, then do your replace function.

Robert.

On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 12:54 PM, Ted Wolfley wrote:

url is the name of the column I am trying to update, should�I put <@column name='url'> instead?�

The only thing constant in the columns' rows that I am trying to update is "&R=on&h=username&o=password1" and everything else before that can be different. The number of records needed to be updated is in the thousands.

I have tried it with� <@REPLACE STR="<@column name 'url' encoding='METAHTML'>"� FINDSTR="<@VAR vopassword>" REPLACESTR="<@VAR vnpassword>" >,
<@REPLACE STR="<@column name 'url' encoding='none'>"� FINDSTR="<@VAR vopassword>" REPLACESTR="<@VAR vnpassword>" > and <@REPLACE STR="<@column name 'url' encoding='url'>"� FINDSTR="<@VAR vopassword>" REPLACESTR="<@VAR vnpassword>" >in the update action without any luck.

In� debug mode,� the query results says I am setting the column� to NULL.

I have done this with Rbase.

Ted


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From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:25 PM
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Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Update action with <@replace>

What is 'url'?


<@REPLACE STR=url FINDSTR="<@VAR vopassword>" REPLACESTR="<@VAR vnpassword>">


According to the above, the string is a constant 'url'. This should work (check encoding though):


<@assign local$url "http://website/results2.asp?u=244&R=on&h=username&o=password1">

<@REPLACE STR="@@local$url" FINDSTR="<@VAR vopassword>" REPLACESTR="<@VAR vnpassword>">


Robert.


On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 12:12 PM, Ted Wolfley wrote:


Hi,



I am trying to do an update on a column called url in a table.� Each row in the column url�is different and has data that�looks like this:

http://website/results2.asp?u=244&R=on&h=username&o=password1



I would like to do an update that will only change "password1" to "password2" and everything else stay the same for that row like:

http://website/results2.asp?u=244&R=on&h=username&o=password2



I have tried using the update action with <@REPLACE STR=url FINDSTR="<@VAR vopassword>" REPLACESTR="<@VAR vnpassword>"> in the value colum of the acton. The variables"<@VAR vopassword>"� is the orginal password� and "<@VAR vnpassword>" is the new password.�



�I have also tried this with direct DMBS using:

�UPDATE masterdetail� SET url='<@REPLACE STR=url FINDSTR="<@VAR vopassword>" REPLACESTR="<@VAR vnpassword>">'



The problem seems to be that witango is not seeing the data in the column.� Is there way to do an update this way?



Thanks







Ted Wolfley

Database/Internet Programmer

The Ogden Group of Rochester

phone: (585) 321 1060 x23

fax: (585) 321 0043

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