Extracting portion of field after last - 1

[GCL2007]

I have a field that is typically populated in the format 12345-67-890 or something similar to that. There are two - characters, however the number of characters can vary. If I wanted to just get everything after that 2nd - . In the above I would want to report 890, what would be the best way to extract that? It typically would be three characters after that last - , but not always.
Thanks!

 

[pmax9999]

This will work as long as the field always has exactly 2 "-" characters:

Split({table.field}, '-')[3]

Hope this helps

Cheers, Pete

 

[GCL2007]

Thanks Pete.. I'm getting A subscript must be between 1 and the size of the array . Any thoughts?

 

[pmax9999]

It means the data is not as you believe it to be and there is at least 1 row where there is not two "-" characters.

To fix it you will need to add a test to ignore those rows. Amend the formula to this:

If      UBound(Split({table.field}, '-')) = 3
Then    Split({table.field}, '-')[3]

Regards

 

[GCL2007]

Yes - my data wasn't as clean as I hoped... Perfect!! Thank you Again!

 

[pmax9999]

If you want the report to clearly indicate the data that is not in the expected format you could use something like the following formula:

If      UBound(Split({table.field}, '-')) = 3
Then    Split({table.field}, '-')[3] 
Else    'Data not in expected format'

Pete.

 

[dgillz]

The IF and ELSE results must be of the same data type.

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[pmax9999]

Hi dgillz. If your comment is in regard to my solution, I think you will find it is. As the original field containing the dashes is a string, the split function result is also a string, albeit a numeric string.

All my solutions are tested to avoid typos etc and it did work.

 

[dgillz]

My apologies I evidently didn't read very well.

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