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Theoretical String Extraction

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O2BNSV

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Jun 29, 2006
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I don't want to bog this down with the nuts and bolts of all that I am trying to do, but is it possible to extract a part of a string within parenthesis using vXI or v2008 as follows:

2 bottles of wine ($123.40)

I am hoping to enter inventory items into a database that isn't really designed to hold inventory. I can accomodate all but the price so I thought their might be a way to extract it out of a string if it is always enclosed in parentheses at the end of the string. Is their a way to do this knowing that the dollar amount won't always take up the same number of characters? Please advise.

 
This formula will display what is between the parens:

extractstring({table.field},"(",")")

or to turn it into a number:

tonumber(extractstring({table.field},"(",")"))

Andy
 
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