[AccessD] Search for string with wildcard characters

Because the string he is 'looking' for in that last 'string' starts at
position 9.  Now William....how long have you been writing code?  <evilgrin>

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: William Hindman [mailto:wdhindman at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 11:51 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Search for string with wildcard characters


"and return a 9"

...that's about as close to mud as you can get ...how did you arrive at the
"9"? :(

William Hindman
"All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Edmund
Burke


----- Original Message -----
From: <rusty.hammond at cpiqpc.com>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Search for string with wildcard characters


> I think if there was a way to incorporate the Like operator with the InStr
> function then my problem would be solved.
>
> Let me explain what I'm doing and maybe someone will have suggestion for a
> better way of doing it.
>
> My client sends a text file of invoices to a Railroad (RR) company.  This
RR
> requires a specific file format for their billing system to import the
> invoices.  My client has tried working with their accounting software
people
> to get the format they need but they say they have done what they need to
do
> so if it requires more coding they will do at a fee of $250 per hour and
> quoted 25 hours (great money if you can get it).
>
> Anyway, I'm taking the text file the accounting software creates which is
> close to what is needed, and making the few more changes to it to make it
> compatible with the RR company.  So far, I've discoved that by searching
the
> file for certain strings, I can replace that string with something else.
> It's been fairly simple up to this point since the strings I'm searching
for
> have all been static.  I'm storing the strings to search for and replace
> with in a table so if something changes they just adjust the strings in
the
> table and away we go.
>
> Now we have a change where the portion of the file I need to change
includes
> a date which changes with each new file.  Now, I could have the client
> change the date in the searchfor string each time they run the program for
a
> new file but it would be really nice if I could have a function search for
> "N1~GA~????????" (where the ?'s represent a date in yyyymmdd format)in
this
> string "REF~03~!N1~GA~20020414" and return a 9.
>
> Clear as mud?
>
> Rusty
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike and Doris Manning [mailto:mikedorism at ntelos.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:20 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Search for string with wildcard characters
>
>
> How about InStr function?
>
> Doris Manning
> Database Administrator
> Hargrove Inc.
> www.hargroveinc.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> rusty.hammond at cpiqpc.com
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:57 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [AccessD] Search for string with wildcard characters
>
>
> Does anyone have any code that will search a string variable for a string
> that includes wildcard characters and returns the location?
>
> ie
> strVariable="This is a test"
> search strVariable for "te??" returns 11
>
>
> Rusty
>
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