Our Item Description field can have a random number of spaces between text. I use RTRIM and LTRIM to clean the right and left sides of the column when pulling with SQL, but this doesn't address the unnecessary spaces between words.
I tried creating a Formula TRIM({Command.ItemDesc}) but this has not removed the extra spaces. Is there a way to address this in Crystal or SQL 2016?
TRIM does not deal with whitespace in the middle of string, only the whitespace before and after the string, you need to use Replace function, try:
Replace({Command.ItemDesc}," ","")
LONG's answer will remove all spaces from your string. If you wish to keep certain necessary spaces, but remove unnecessary ones, you can use this formula:
TRIM(Replace({Command.ItemDesc}," "," ")
This formula has two steps:
Remove all spaces before and after the string
Reduce any spots with multiple spaces into one space only
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I have a problem with an .CSV file.
Some of the values are prices with a comma to separate units and decimals, all the other fields are separated with a comma too.
So, as expected, it is impossible to convert my csv file like this. (If there is a way, please tell me)
Therefore, I am trying to write a vba macro that will replace the comma by a dot.
More specifically, I need to replace the 9th occurence of "," to a "." IF AND ONLY IF the character next to the comma respects a specific condition. That is why I need a macro to do so.
In excel, I was using the following formula to find the position of my comma:
=Find(char(160),substitute(A2;",";char(160),9))
This formula gives me the position of the 9th comma, that's perfect. I would like to know how to code this in VBA
Thanks in advance !
Alex
I am trying to remove beginning and trailing spaces before my value is entered into the database. I tried the following but with no success and am struggling syntactically.
SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(SqlHelper.Command("dbo.spMYPROC_Insert", SqlHelper.Parameter("#myParameter", e.Values("myParameter"), Trim(Data.SqlDbType.VarChar))))
I am trying to search for trailing whitespaces in text cells in Excel. Knowing that Excel search accepts regex, I expected to leverage on the full feature set, but was surprised to find that some features do not seem to work.
For example, I have some cells with strings like ELUFA\s\s\s\s\s (note: in my excel sheet there is no \s, but just blank invisible whitespaces, after ELUFA, but I had to add these \s in here otherwise Stackoverflow would just remove these whitespaces and the string would just appear to be ELUFA) or NATION CONFEC.\s with trailing whitespaces.
I used the expression [A-Z.]{1}\s+$ into the excel search function expecting that it would return search results for these cells, but it does not, and just tells me that nothing is found.
However, what I find really funny is that Excel search is somehow able to interpret a regex like this A *. Using this expression, excel search does find for me only the ELUFA\s\s\s\s\s cells, and no other cells which do not match this regex.
Is there some kind of limitations as to what subset of the full REGEX that Excel search accepts? How do we get excel search to accept the full REGEX feature set as described here?
Thank you.
The Excel SEARCH() function does not support full regex. It actually only supports two wildcards, ? and *. From the documentation:
You can use the wildcard characters — the question mark (?) and asterisk (*) — in the find_text argument. A question mark matches any single character; an asterisk matches any sequence of characters. If you want to find an actual question mark or asterisk, type a tilde (~) before the character.
If you want to match spaces then you will have to enter them as literals. Note that finding any amount of trailing spaces could be as simple as ELUFA\s, with one space at the end, because that would actually match one, or more than one, space.
I want to convert any special characters entered in infopath textbox into under score.Using the translate function, in the below example I am able to replace the space with under score
translate(fileName, " ","_")
Since translate function takes only three parameters then how can we check all the special characters? My target is if any special characters including space is entered into the text box it should automatically replace these special characters with under score ("_")
what if you reverse it. If it is not A-Z, then convert it
or try this:
translate(field1, "!##%^&", "_")
I need to check if a string from a word document contains a paragraph character. I want to only extract the text without the paragraph character. Is There a constant for the paragraph character? I tried checking for vbnewLine and vbCrLF, but these didn't work.
Have a look at the wikipedia article on newlines.
In total there are 3 characters indicating a new line (in some context), and sometimes they are used in combinations.
I think it does not matter which ones Word uses and which ones it doesn't; You want them all gone.
So, I'd say run through all characters and remove all LF, CR and RS instances, or replace them by spaces (whilst avoiding double spaces)