BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  please help me ...          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Databases (SQL Servers) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Vicky Verdenga Guest Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:34 am    Post subject: please help me ... hello everybody i have a problem ... i have a field varchar and i want to isolate the numeric part ... to be more specific the value of the field is 'PEL-1234', what i want to do is to keep only the '1234' part ... the database is sqlserver sorry for my poor english ... thank's in advance Back to top Andy Guest Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 9:25 am    Post subject: Re: please help me ... if your data format is consistant ... ie you don't have things like P2L-1234 you could do something along the lines of ... var InputString:String; NumericPart:String; x:integer; begin NumericPart:=''; InputString:=trim(YourFieldContents); for x:=1 to length(InputString) do begin if InputString[x] in ['0'..'9'] then NumericPart:=NumericPart + InputString[x]; end; end; Andy "Vicky Verdenga" <vverdenga (AT) algorithmos (DOT) gr> wrote Quote: hello everybody i have a problem ... i have a field varchar and i want to isolate the numeric part ... to be more specific the value of the field is 'PEL-1234', what i want to do is to keep only the '1234' part ... the database is sqlserver sorry for my poor english ... thank's in advance Back to top Vicky Verdenga Guest Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 10:16 am    Post subject: Re: please help me ... thank's a lot Andy ... your help means a lot .. this lines of code is what exactly i want to do!!! thank's again Ï "Andy" <Andy (AT) no (DOT) mail.please> Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá news:3fe4156a$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: if your data format is consistant ... ie you don't have things like P2L-1234 you could do something along the lines of ... var InputString:String; NumericPart:String; x:integer; begin NumericPart:=''; InputString:=trim(YourFieldContents); for x:=1 to length(InputString) do begin if InputString[x] in ['0'..'9'] then NumericPart:=NumericPart + InputString[x]; end; end; Andy "Vicky Verdenga" <vverdenga (AT) algorithmos (DOT) gr> wrote in message news:3fe409a4$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... hello everybody i have a problem ... i have a field varchar and i want to isolate the numeric part ... to be more specific the value of the field is 'PEL-1234', what i want to do is to keep only the '1234' part ... the database is sqlserver sorry for my poor english ... thank's in advance Back to top John Herbster (TeamB) Guest Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:35 pm    Post subject: Re: please help me ... Vicky, Next time please put the subject of your question in the message subject. It will help attract help. 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