[AccessD] Cheecking field exists

Simplest way I can think of would be open a recordset based on the table
and then try to read a value from that field and trap for the error if
it doesn't exist.


Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Martin Reid
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:13 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Cheecking field exists

Is there an easy way to check if a field exists in a particular table
vai vba?
 
Maritn
 
Martin WP Reid
Training and Assessment Unit
Riddle Hall
Belfast
 
tel: 02890 974477
 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of John Clark
Sent: Thu 18/05/2006 15:59
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Splitting up names



Sorry that it has taken so long to get back to y'all...been extremely
busy, and every time I sit down to do something, something else comes
up.

As usual I've gotten some good ideas from you all. As I suspected, there
doesn't seem to be a clear-cut solution. I picked up a little from many
of these posts, and I have actually begun some code that is progressing
nicely toward a solution.

I haven't tried this code here yet...I'll try to get to it in a little
bit...but I'm sure it too will help me out.

This project isn't exactly high priority...it is basically helping a
former co-worker that has moved on...so it has been difficult to put
much time into it, with everything else going on.

Thanks again though!

John W. Clark


>>> adtp at hotmail.com 5/12/2006 1:01 am >>>
John,

    Functions  Fn_FirstName() & Fn_LastName() as given below, should get
you the desired results as per pattern indicated by you..

    Just make sure that the string variable named SuffixList in
Fn_FirstName() includes all the likely suffixes.

    Could you please try it out and let me know whether any further fine
tuning is needed.

Best wishes,
A.D.Tejpal
----------------

===========================================
Function Fn_FirstName(ByVal FullName As _
                                                    String) As String
    ' Returns First Name
    Dim Txt As String, Cnt As Long
    Dim SuffixList As String, Rtv As Variant
   
    SuffixList = "Sr-Jr-Dr-Esq-Rev-Hon-Sir-Lord"
   
    Txt = FullName
   
    Rtv = Split(SuffixList, "-")
    For Cnt = 0 To UBound(Rtv)
        Txt = Trim(Replace(Txt, " " & Rtv(Cnt), ""))
    Next
   
    Fn_FirstName = Trim(Left(Txt, InStrRev(Txt, " ") - 1))
   
End Function
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------

Function Fn_LastName(ByVal FullName As _
                                                    String) As String
    ' Returns Last Name
    Dim Txt As String
   
    Txt = Fn_FirstName(FullName)
   
    Fn_LastName = Trim(Mid(FullName, Len(Txt) + 1))
   
End Function
===========================================

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: John Clark
  To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
  Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 23:51
  Subject: [AccessD] Splitting up names


  If got a user running a db in Access. She has a list of names and they
  were all input into a single "name" field, rather than "last name" &
  "first name." She would now like to split these names up, but there
are
  some double first names, as well as "jr" and "sr" suffixes.

  Is there a way to do this?

  Basically names might be like this:

  JOHN SMITH JR
  MARY ELLEN SMITH
  BARBARA SMITH

  And I'd need to get them like this into a first name field like:

  JOHN
  MARY ELLEN
  BARBARA

  and a last name field like:

  SMITH JR
  SMITH
  SMITH

  John W. Clark
  Computer Programmer
  Niagara County
  Central Data Processing
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