Queries :: Extract Text Between Certain Characters
May 14, 2014
I have a field that contains the following data:
FirstName:Pedro LastName:Campos Restaurant:BI Strand Location:North Month:March
I need to extract the data into different fields like this:
Field1: Pedro
Field2: Campos
Field3: BI Strand
Field4: North
How to extract the information I want into different fields
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Mar 20, 2007
Hi, Everyone,
I have an excel column that has building location and building name in one column, example 1245 Accounting, how can I copy the 1245 into it's own column, please help, i can do it either in access or excel. Please.
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Aug 30, 2013
i would like to make a query in ma access can extract text between first and second character "/" and when there are not "/" in field it returns null.now data in my table are like below
Quote:
No option1 1 100 2 145/Mechanical/0800 3 120/electrical/1620 4 131/mechanical/0200/dw-001
Now I like to make a query can extract text between first and second character "/" like below: No option1 discipline
Quote:
1 100 null 2 145/Mechanical/0800 Mechanical 3 120/electrical/1620 electrical 4 131/mechanical/0200/dw-001 mechanical
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Aug 5, 2013
I have a field which contains "01501 PRIKLJ. VRHNIKA - LJ / Stevno mesto" .
1.) I would like to extract just text part from that field, how? *number is always on beginning but different 1-10000
2.) Optional, how could I delete in this new only text field part of text after / ...*some rows have some dont /
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Nov 27, 2006
I have seen variations of this question and have tried to modify for my purpose, but have been unsuccessful. I need to extract the first four digits of the Social Security Number. We no longer view the whole number, but a variation of the first four of social and first four of first name. I have tried many variations of the Left Function to extract the data from the field:
Expr1: SSN(Left([SSN],4))
Expr1: Left([SSN],4)
Etc.
I get various errors, mostly involving the comma. I am at a loss since I usually search for the code and find that it works. In this case, it doesn't work. I am also trying to extract the first four of the first name and will later combine the two although I broke it down since I couldn't get the basic "left" function to work.
Please help if possible. :)
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Feb 18, 2014
I am trying to find a way to extract an email from a large text file that is an output from our email system. I would like to be able to extract the email address using a query or collection of queries. I have been able to extract all of the text that contains the @ symbol. From their I created a query expression:
Mid([field1],InStrRev([field1]," ")) that captures some but not everything I need.
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Sep 13, 2006
Hi,
I am currently working on a report that i need to extract part of the data from the memoranda field. i have a problem to extract the details that i need.
Example as follow :
Field Name = Memo
Details in Field = ?********~SPGEO1398789159173897 *********?
what i have to do is to extract the data starting from "SPGEO1398789159173897". Also the length of the number can be varied.
i have tried to use the instr, Trim, LTrim but still couldn't get what i wanted.
Can someone here please give me a hand on this
Much appreciate for your help
Ronny
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Sep 12, 2007
I have an expression below that I am trying to use to extract text from within parentheses in a field, but it is leaving the last ")" on the extracted text. Can anyone help me determine what I need to do to just return the text? Thanks.
The length of the field is 100.
Mid([SIDE_DRUG_DESC],InStr(1,[SIDE_DRUG_DESC],"(",1)+1,Len([SIDE_DRUG_DESC])-(InStr(1,[SIDE_DRUG_DESC],"(",1)+1))
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Aug 24, 2006
Hello,
I have a table with a field named SSN. This field contains data with the following format:
123-45-6789L
As you can see my field has a text format and I need to create a make table query that will extract all the character that are places in position 12 and 13 (simply the letters after the ssn).
I have tried with Mid([SSN],12,13) but nothing happens.
Any help? Thanks.
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Dec 7, 2006
I have the following data in the field MA-84
I created a query and added the following
Year: "20" & Right([TYPEFY],2)
when I run the query I get a new field named Year and the format looks like
2084
Now I just need a IIF statement that looks at 2084 and compares to to current year is the current year is less than 2084 leave alone else make it 1984
One last question if the Field TYPEFY IS BLANK how do I make the query do nothing to Newly created query field Year?
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Sep 5, 2007
I have a table with a text field (named Description), which may or may not contain an "ID Number", which is of the form [CHSV]#[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]## - NB this is not necessarily at the beginning or the end, and will vary between records. For e.g.
"something C4CLE01"
"something H5STT02 Something else"
What I would like to do in a query is to extract just the ID number part and put that in a new field e.g.
"something C4CLE01" => "C4CLE01"
"something H5STT02 Something else" => "H5STT02"
So far I have considering LIKE, which is no good because it doesnt tell you where in the string the regular expression is, and INSTR doesnt work with regular expressions AFAIK.
Added bonus difficulty - I use the database as an external source for an Excel pivot table. I created a function (which I named JOBID) in VBA to do the above job easily enough i.e. I added a field "JOBID([Description])", but when I try to use the data in said pivot table, it says "Undefined function JOBID in expression". I have tried copying the function to the Excel workbook, but that doesn't work.
Im using Office 2003 if that makes any difference. Thanks in advance.
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Nov 23, 2014
I have a column containing records of the timestamp of an event. I need to extract the date out of each of these records and put them in a separate table. The date and time of each record is contained within a bracket.
E.g.
ES~1~1412179200(Oct 02 00:00:00 2014)~1~ITM_W64MQMONITORLOG00~
0~0~ES~1~1412179203(Oct 02 00:00:03 2014)~1~ITM_Log_Entries~
0~0~ES~1~1412179204(Oct 02 00:00:04 2014)~1~ITM_Log_Entries~
As you can see, the number of characters of each record are different, so I am unable to do the Left$ count thingy.
Is there any other way to do it? I only need the date and time contained in the brackets.
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Nov 4, 2014
I have a field which contains various text including an email address which i need to extract.
My research says that I need to use a regex code but dont know how to get that into Access.
I have attached an example of the file i'm importing into Access.
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Feb 12, 2013
"Att Mr/Mrs Vezi Your DEFAULTED account has been handed over to XXX. Payment DUE IMMEDIATELY Ref 1315519509. Tel 0009377500"
I need to extract the word "Ref " plus the number that follows it from the above string. The problem is that the word "Ref " is not always in the same place and the number following it is not always the same length. (ie it could look like "Ref 123456 " or "Ref 1234567 ") The only commonality between the records is that the number will always follow the word "Ref ".
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Dec 4, 2013
I want to extract specific data from a text file and place it in my table.The following is an example of the data:
Display Author="All Saints" Title="On & On" Genre="Pop" Color="7693971" Tag="2"
I want to extract the following:
Where the word Author= appears to extract the data between the double quotes, so in the above case I want to extract "All Saints" excluding the double quotes.And then where Title= appears extract "On & On", again excluding the double quotes.So I would end up with data in my table looking something like this
strArtist [Author] strSong [Title] strGenre [Genre] strYear [Year]
All Saints On & On Pop
America Venture Highway Rock 1972
Amillionsons Misty Blue Pop 2002
my table is name tblMusicList, the fields are:
strArtist
strSong
strGenre
strYear
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Dec 5, 2006
Wise one, I have looked for this throughout the forum but could not fiend an answer. Could you help? I have found a little script to display the number of characters entered into a text box so at to warn the user if they are getting close to the maximum number of characters allowed.
See http://www.databasedev.co.uk/counting_characters.html
I cannot get it to work. The problem is that I can only enter 1 character. It counts it but then highlights the character I just typed. I then have to click next to it to input the next character. Any Ideas?
Cheers,
Rene
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Jun 13, 2007
I Have Created A Client Reference Allocation Screen Which Makes The Clients Reference From Details In A Number Of Text Boxes.
For Example:
Client Number: 0010, Forename: Andrew, Surname: Bloggs, Year: 2007,
Occupation: Driver.
Client Reference = 0010ab-dr07
I Have Copied The Text Boxes So The Information Is Automatically Displayed To Create The Client Reference, But Rather Than Shortening The Copied Text Boxes To Show Only The First Few Characters Is There A Way Of Limiting The Number Of Characters Shown In The Copied Text Boxes??
Matt
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Jan 10, 2005
I have a table of 1216 records. The Title fields contain extra notes which I would like to remove. All of the notes have /'s around them. I would like to remove all of the text between the /'s and all of the /'s themselves.
Example:
ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH /ALL EXCEPT JAPAN/ /FOR INSTITUTIONS/
Should be:
ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH
I don't know how to do this, but I can do it in MS Excel or Access--whichever one is easier.
Thanks for help in advance.
-Siena
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Sep 19, 2012
I am taking a filing index of City Council Resolutions which is currently based in Excel and transferring the index to an Access database I am building. An issue I am having is that the Resolutions being indexed have a subject description that ranges from about 100 characters to +700. The new Access database must hold the complete contents of the Excel spreadsheet.
The direction I have taken is to divide up the subject field into three text fields as needed ([Subject1], [Subject2], [Subject3]) each with up to 255 characters. In reports I will simply combine these fields into one large text box so the user will see them as one large subject description. Memo fields are not an option because in the near future the database backend will be moved to SQL and I understand that SQL does not always play well with memo fields.
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May 1, 2014
I have a text field on a form and I am trying to paste more than 50 characters (and space) into that field and I get the following message: "The text is too long to be edited.". Is ther a way to increase the paste capacity?
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Jul 30, 2013
How to split characters:
Example: my expression is
2+12*1+10
I want split this and put it to 4 text field
field1: 2
field2: 12
field3: 1
field4: 10
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Jun 7, 2007
Hi,
I have a DB where I want text entry of the primary key to adhere to a certain format.
I'm already using a mask of >LL000000 to force two capital letter and 6 numbers.
Is there any way I can force extra restrictions, by making for example the first 3 characters to have to be AB1, thus making every entry follow format:
AB1<number><number><number><number><number>
(FYI: Access 2003)
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May 25, 2005
I have a table with a large text field in it, among other fields.
What I am trying to do, in a query, is to show only the characters that are between brackets "[" and "]" for that field. And, if there is more than one pair of brackets, show only what lies between the last pair of brackets.
What I've tried so far is use InStr() functions to find these brackets and then use a Mid() function to show the enclosed text. But, it doesn't work well and it gives me a very complex query! In fact, I don't think it is a good idea to even use these functions in my query. That would probably slow it down a lot.
Can someone show me a function that I could use to do what I'm looking for? I need function names that could help me make better searches for more informations.
Thank you!
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Dec 20, 2003
Hi
I'm new to forum and can't find an answer to this problem. I am using Access 2002 and have a memo field in a form that I want people to be able to type in as much text as they want. This is then displayed in a report. The form accepts the text with no problems however when I view it in the report it has been cut to 255 characters as if it is a text box. I have set the properties to 'can grow' to no avail. I have searched the MS Knowledge base for a solution with no luck. I admit I'm not an expert in Access and would really appreciate some help as I have been trying to overcome this problem for days.
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Oct 12, 2012
I need to import circa 900 .txt files into a dbase (yet to be built), they are all of a standard format/layout. I need to import the top line into about 9 columns. So not sure how, but it can be mapped to pull the same digits per column every time.
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Mar 1, 2013
I have a date value in text format that is 5 character and want to convert it to a proper date format. Here is a sample of the data:
07301 actually represents 7/30/2011. How to actually convert that value to the date format of mm/dd/yyyy?
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