Extend Charachters On Fields With Existing Data
Oct 22, 2007
Hi Everyone
I have done a blunder on my database:
When I built it I gave the MaterialsInventory# a field size of 3 characters, which I soon got to learn (stupid me for not thinking it through) has to be a lot bigger. I have now extended it to 5 characters which should be more than enough. Now, when my list comes up its not organized properly, 123 would com after 12299 for instance and so on.
my question is; how can I make a function/code/something-smart to extend the 123 type values to 00123? This table is linked as well so I guess I'd have to delete the links and do the same for every linked table? I got about 5000+ entries so don't feel like doing this manually:P
Any help would be highly appreciated!
Cheers
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Dec 19, 2006
Hello Tech gurus,
I have a database with existing data, that is not normalized, :eek: and all the data is in one field... This what I am dealing with:
As you notice the first row of data in field1 C10A CHOLEST&TRIGLY has 3 spaces to the right the next row ALTORVASTIN has five spaces to the right, the next line LIPITOR has 7 spaces to the right, and so forth, hopefully you get at what I am trying to do, I just looked at the data and it is not showing up in view of the leading spaces, but I am trying to move the data based ONLY on the position of leading spaces, example all data that has 3 leading spaces would go into its own separate column, and all data that has 7 leading spaces would go into a separate column, I have tried to use the left, mid, len functions but I cannot figure out how to move the text and keep it whole only by data position of spaces.
Field1:
C10A CHOLEST&TRIGLY
ATORVASTATIN
LIPITOR
PFIZER
SIMVASTATIN
SIMVASTATIN TEVA
TEVA
M1A ANTIRHEUMATIC N-STEROID
ETODOLAC
ETOPAN
TARO PHARMA
Thanks so much for your help... :confused:
Nana :D
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