Hi,
I have a field that have two names in it, separated by two-spaces. how do I get only the second person from this field?
examples:
---1st person-------- -----2nd person------
LUKASZ STASIAK ANNA KAROWIEC
^1 space ^2
-----------1st person--------- ------------2nd person---------
ADAM KAPEC KOWALKI JURAND ZE SPYCHOWA
^1 ^1 ^2 ^1 ^1
this:
sender = scan(tpp_name, 1, " ");
receiver = scan(tpp_name, 2, " ");
treats the " " as <space separator><space separator> not <double space separator>. Is there any workaround for that?
Thanks
Lukasz
Work around would likely involve the INDEX function which returns the start position of one string within another or zero if not found.
pos = index(tpp_name ,' ');
sender = substr(tpp_name ,1,pos-1);
receiver = substr(tpp_name ,pos+2);
should work but you should set the lengths of the sender and receiver varaibles before use.
Work around would likely involve the INDEX function which returns the start position of one string within another or zero if not found.
pos = index(tpp_name ,' ');
sender = substr(tpp_name ,1,pos-1);
receiver = substr(tpp_name ,pos+2);
should work but you should set the lengths of the sender and receiver varaibles before use.
Check modification 'M':
scan(tpp_name, 2, " ",'m');
doesn't work as intended - it returns the second word from the string
Hi:
Both FIND and INDEX worked for me.
cynthia
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