topic Re: Issue with REPLACE Statement in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Issue with REPLACE Statement

Former Member — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:03:44 GMT

Hi All,

I have an issue with replace statement . I Would appreciate if someone can throw some light on this

Moderator message - Please respect the 2,500 character maximum when posting. Post only the relevant portions of code

I want the corresponding values of 4 "&" of text2 in comparsion of Text.

It works fine for every option except for

text2 = '& & & & Class third Field fourth'.

O/p test1 = This first Custom second , test2, test3,test4 are blank

i want o/p like test1 = this

test2 = first

test3 = custom

test4 = second

text2 = 'This first Custom second & & & &'.

O/p test4 = Class third Field fourth , test1, test2,test3 are blank

i want o/p like test1 = class

test2 = third

test3 = field

test4 = fourth

Sorry i tried in code mode but for some reason it doesn't work. It looks messy

Thanks in advance

Edited by: DAVID KITSO on Feb 18, 2010 5:03 PM

Edited by: Rob Burbank on Feb 18, 2010 1:04 PM

Re: Issue with REPLACE Statement

Former Member — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:47:40 GMT

Hi David,

There is a character limitation for posts and as the option code add some HTML, this is rewritten badly... I suggest you to write fewer piece of code nex time in order to have the code well formatted!

For your requirement, the split is done on character '&' so if words are separated by space you will not split correctly words in your 5 variables! I suppose that it is rather your input (variable text2) which is badly formatted in the "wrong" cases...

Best regards,

Samuel

Re: Issue with REPLACE Statement

Former Member — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:15:53 GMT

use the below code.

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '&' IN text2 WITH space.

split text at space into op1 op2 op3 op4.