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Collecting Substrings
Hi,

I am using CF 4.1xxx. Database = Microsoft Access

I have form variables for which I am attempting to identify similar records within database (ostensibly to prevent record duplication).

So, I would like to chop up the string for which I am going to search for similar occurences so that I can identify already inputted abbreviations (example : input is edward, find like '%ed%)

How do I get substrings of strings using CF?

I want substring(start,end,string) , and am not finding a way to do this.

Help appreciated muchly,

Mike
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Don't know if the function is in CF 4, but for version 6 you would use the mid function.

mid(string, start, count)
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It's all in the docs (this is 5.0 but none of the string manipulation functions have changed that I am aware of).
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The thing about the docs is that while I am getting familiar, it is sometimes difficulst to know what function I need by its name (I had looked but didn't pick up on Mid)..

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