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Here is how I was able to accomplish the task noted in the first post in this string.
Two Formula Fields were created.
1) ABBREV VALUE= InStr ({ITEMMAST.DESCRIPTION},' ')
2) ABBREV= Left ({ITEMMAST.DESCRIPTION},{@ABBREV VALUE} )
thanks for the assistance....
Idle,
{ITEMMAST.DESCRIPTION}[1 to InStr({ITEMMAST.DESCRIPTION}," ")]
The above produces the following error:
"The subscript must be between 1 and the length of the string."
Crystal 7.0.1.100
Oracle 8.0.5.0.0
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