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String manipulation in Crystal 11 1

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trivalent

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Feb 21, 2007
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I am using Crystal Report 11. I have a name field in my report that pulls the clients name from the database like this "Doe,John" I want to display only the Last name? I am not sure how to do this. thanks
 
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Try a formula like this:

left({table.name},instr({table.name},",")-1)

-LB
 
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