Left(string,75) for progress

Gary,
Thanks. That did the trick. I kept looking for the Crystal equivalent - left(string,75) but didn't know what other keywords to look up in the help.

Troy

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Kacher
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:33 AM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Left(string,75) for progress


try this:

variable = substring(Part.PartDescription, 1, 75)

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [SMTP:tfunte@...]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:13 AM
To: Vantage
Subject: [Vantage] Left(string,75) for progress

Can anyone tell me what the function would be in Progress to give me only
the first 75 characters of the Part.PartDescription field?

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics


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Can anyone tell me what the function would be in Progress to give me only the first 75 characters of the Part.PartDescription field?

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics


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try this:

variable = substring(Part.PartDescription, 1, 75)

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [SMTP:tfunte@...]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:13 AM
To: Vantage
Subject: [Vantage] Left(string,75) for progress

Can anyone tell me what the function would be in Progress to give me only
the first 75 characters of the Part.PartDescription field?

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



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SUBSTRING(Part.PartDescription,1,5)

Terry L. Williams I.S. Manager Chipsco, Inc. 9936 Liberty St. Ext.
Meadville, PA 16335
p.814-333-6331 x236 f.814-337-2548 c.814-671-8650 tlw@...
<mailto:tlw@...> www.chipsco.com <http://www.chipsco.com/>

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:13 AM
To: Vantage
Subject: [Vantage] Left(string,75) for progress

Can anyone tell me what the function would be in Progress to give me only
the first 75 characters of the Part.PartDescription field?

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have
already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
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Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links

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