picking some part from the string

[skumar]

Hi All

I have a requirement that from a particular string "The Customer has recently made an application for a new account" I need to pass the value into 2 different columns. Now the issue is in the first column is of 20 length and second column is of 150 length. when I am taking the first 20 characters from the source string the target column will be populated with the value"The Customer has rec". But I want the first column to be popualted with "The Customer has" and the second column should start/load with "recently made an application for a new account".

Can you please advise how we can acheive this.

Thanks in advance

Regards
skumar

[robjones]

What criteria do you need to use to break up the string into two parts?

Do you just want to take complete words up which make up 20 characters or less into the first column, and then pass the remaining complete words into the second column?

[skumar]

yes rob you are correct.

[skumar]

yes rob you are correct.

[Sainath.Srinivasan]

Search for Count and Index.

[chulett]

From what I remember, Ray has posted about the Fold() function for requirements like this. Never looked up what it did, however.

[robjones]

Create a stage variable, svBreak, with the following:

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Index(link.InputString, " ", Count(link.InputString[1,20], " ") )

Then your column derivations will be:


Col1

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link.InputString[1, svBreak -1]

Col2

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link.InputString[svBreak,150]

[Sainath.Srinivasan]

Fold() is a basic function that provides break by delimier.

[JRodriguez]

Stage Variables

sv1 = InputOrigString[1,20]
LastSv1Char = sv1[1]
sv2 = InputOrigString[21, ( len(InputOrigString) + 1)]
LastSv2Char =sv2[1,1]
svCountSpaces = count(sv1, " ")
svPosition = Index (InputOrigString, " ", svCountSpaces)


Columns derivations
targetCol1= If ( LastSv1Char <> " " and LastSv2Char <> " " ) Then InputOrigString[1, (svPosition - 1)] Else sv1
targetCol2= If ( LastSv1Char <> " " and LastSv2Char <> " " ) Then InputOrigString[svPosition, ( len(InputOrigString) - svPosition )] Else sv2