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Kim

I have a value 123-456-789. I want to be able to see everything to the left
of the last dash (123-456). The format of the value may change as well as
the number of dashes in the value. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Kim
 
B

Brendan Reynolds

? left$("123-456-789",instrrev("123-456-789","-")-1)
123-456

InStrRev returns the position of the last hyphen, and we take 1 from that
because we don't want to include the hyphen itself. See InStrRev Function
and Left Function in the help file for details.

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Dirk Goldgar

Kim said:
I have a value 123-456-789. I want to be able to see everything to
the left of the last dash (123-456). The format of the value may
change as well as the number of dashes in the value. Anyone have any
ideas?

Thanks,

Kim
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Left([YourString], InStrRev([YourString], "-") - 1)
 
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fredg

I have a value 123-456-789. I want to be able to see everything to the left
of the last dash (123-456). The format of the value may change as well as
the number of dashes in the value. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Kim
Click to expand...

If you are using Access 2002 (or possibly Access 2000) or newer:
NewField = Left([FieldName],InStrRev([FieldName],"-")-1)
 
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