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Old September 13th, 2006, 06:57 PM
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Hi all,

i was wondering if it was possible to grab a part of a string
eg.
i have an order number that is displayed as a string eg. "06-1234"
what i wish to do is, when a new record is entered select the "1234" part of the string from the previous record, convert it to a number (i think like a Cint() type thing) increment it by 1 then convert it back to a string and put back the "06-" and put it in the new record..

i hope that makes sence

any help or advice would be much appreciated

cheers

 
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never mind... i figured it out

thanks anyway

 
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So what code did you use?

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Old September 18th, 2006, 06:38 PM
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My order numbers are like so "06-1234" so i used the split() function
to split the string at "-" assigned the last half to a variable, converted to integer, incremented by 1, then converted back to a string and added the first half back to it

hope that makes sence

 
Old September 19th, 2006, 06:22 AM
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It might be easier to keep the two parts seperate, and then only bring them together when you need them. Like:

tblYourTable
txtYear - default value: Left(DatePart("yyyy", Date()), 2)
intOrder - keep as increment

Then to display:

txtOrderNo: (Cstr([txtYear]) & "-" & CStr([intOrder]))

Anyway, keeps the processing down a little. Probably not much.



mmcdonal





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