Kostas Konstantinidis
kost36 at otenet.gr
Mon Nov 17 13:58:36 CST 2008
Hi group,
I am using a function created by Duane Hookom, 2003 about how to concatenate
two fields in one to the following query
SELECT [Last_name] & " " & [Father_name] & " " & [First_name] AS onoma,
T_ca_diagnosis.ca_diagnosis, RT_AM_metastaseis.kind_ca
FROM T_ca_diagnosis RIGHT JOIN (MT_basic_char INNER JOIN RT_AM_metastaseis
ON MT_basic_char.AM = RT_AM_metastaseis.AM) ON T_ca_diagnosis.IDca_diagnosis
= RT_AM_metastaseis.IDca_diagnosis;
What I want to do is to make a new field e.g. Diagnosis in which the data
will appear concatenated like:
T_ca_diagnosis.ca_diagnosis01 (RT_AM_metastaseis.kind_ca01),
T_ca_diagnosis.ca_diagnosis02 (RT_AM_metastaseis.kind_ca02), etc etc
The function is calling with:
Diagnosis: Concatenate("SELECT T_ca_diagnosis.ca_diagnosis & ' (' &
RT_AM_metastaseis.kind_ca & ')' FROM ....... WHERE
MT_basic_char.AM=RT_AM_metastaseis.AM]
and T_ca_diagnosis.IDca_diagnosis = RT_AM_metastaseis.IDca_diagnosis
But it doesn't work cause something is missing between FROM and WHERE and
that's exactly the point I need your help...
Many thank's
/kostas
Function Concatenate(pstrSQL As String, _
Optional pstrDelim As String = ", ") _
As String
'Created by Duane Hookom, 2003
'this code may be included in any application/mdb providing
' this statement is left intact
'======For DAO uncomment next 4 lines=======
'====== comment out ADO below =======
'Dim db As DAO.Database
'Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
'Set db = CurrentDb
'Set rs = db.OpenRecordset(pstrSQL)
'======For ADO uncomment next two lines=====
'====== comment out DAO above ======
Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset
rs.Open pstrSQL, CurrentProject.Connection, _
adOpenKeyset, adLockOptimistic
Dim strConcat As String 'build return string
With rs
If Not .EOF Then
.MoveFirst
Do While Not .EOF
strConcat = strConcat & _
.Fields(0) & pstrDelim
.MoveNext
Loop
End If
.Close
End With
Set rs = Nothing
'====== uncomment next line for DAO ========
'Set db = Nothing
If Len(strConcat) > 0 Then
strConcat = Left(strConcat, _
Len(strConcat) - Len(pstrDelim))
End If
Concatenate = strConcat
End Function