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Moise
Fluorite | Level 6

Hello, 

 

I have a string character like that AB032001ZWXY and I have to convert to AB-032-001-ZWXY by inserting hyphen, how can I do that?

 

Thanks

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Kurt_Bremser
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target = catx("-",substr(source,1,2),substr(source,3,3),substr(source,6,3),substr(source,9));

Set the required length for target before this with a LENGTH statement.

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