Queries :: Search Field For Special Characters

Oct 22, 2014

I am trying to query on a field for any that contain special characters. How can I accomplish this? I do not know what special characters could be in this field, so I would want to query for ANY special character.

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Queries :: Possible To Query A Field For Special Characters In A String?

Oct 11, 2013

Is it possible to query a field for special characters in a string? I want to find any records that have characters other than A-Z, 0-9

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Mar 12, 2015

I want my to detect special characters in my descriptions that are not found on keyboard and display as error.
Tried using the following

Description check: IIf([Common Description] Is Null Or [Common Description] Not Like "*[!a-z0-9@=.^_$%!#&'`(){|}*?~[]/-]*" And [Description Local] Is Null Or [Description Local] Not Like "*[!a-z0-9@=.^_$%!#&'`(){|}*?~[]/-]*","<<Error Desc>>","OK")

but when i tested it using some data, it shows all as <<Error Desc>>

some of the special characters i want to check for are βuΩ etc.

So if my description contains characters that are not: a-z OR 0-9 or any of the following ~!@#$%^&*()_+=-`][';/.,<>?:"{}|~

it will return <<Error Desc>>

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Memo Field Converts Everything After Char 255 To Special Characters

Jan 15, 2008

Hello,
I have an unbound form where the user enters feedback, usually > 255 chars. When they hit the "Submit" button, an append query adds this to a memo field on a table. A memo field should be able to hold 65,000 some characters however everything after 255 turns into a special character, mostly boxes. Any ideas on how to retain the text?

Thanks for any suggestions!
Stone

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Mar 1, 2014

I thought I had solved my initial problem of removing the apostrophe character for each zip code field. Most of the fields have data that reads '12345-1234'. I want to remove each (') character and the "-1234" so I end up with a zipcode of 12345.

I created 2 queries for this process. I first run a query with the following statement "Left([ZIP],Len([ZIP])-6)". That gets rid of the "-1234' ".

The I run the second query with this statement "Right([ZIP],Len([ZIP])-6)".

These 2 queries work perfectly if the original zipcode is " '12345-1234' ", but if it is " '12345' ", the entire zipcode is deleted.

I have attached 3 (.jpg)'s to show you what I am talking about.

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Jul 23, 2007

Hi guys,

I have a question regarding special characters that access doesn't like to see.

When passing a string to be absolved via html, if I set myHtmlBody = "<font color="#000FF"></font> it will throw a syntax error because of the # character.

How can I solve this? Thx for any help.

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Feb 20, 2007

I am exporting an Access table as an xml file and need to be able to identify and replace '&', '(' and ')' as they are not accepted in xml.

Does anyone know how a query can be built which will find these characters in fields and update to ' and' or just remove?


Thanks

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Jun 14, 2006

Hi,

I'm not sure whether i'm in the right forum or not but i'll tell you my problem and if i'm not you can point me in the right direction.

I have a form with a text area which allow's the user to submit a comment to an Access database.

I get the following error:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'

but this only seems to happen when the following characters are used " . / * : ! # & - ? " in the message.

Can the settings in Access be changed to correct this problem
or is it a coding problem??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thxs dinivan

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View And Print Special Characters

Feb 7, 2007

I faced a dilemma over the weekend in that I needed to preview and then print the ascii character 219 (A black block) on a report. It overlayed a paper calendar form that we use to print temporary access passes for where I work. The black blocks would indicate the days for the pass. Unfortunately, using Chr(219) did not work - so I searched the forums here and had a bit of luck, but still the solution remained elusive. Finally (and I should have done this first :)) I went to Help in access and found the answer.

To view or print any special character go to the start button on the computer, then navigate to programs, then accessories, then tools, then character map. Once there, choose whatever character you want and write down the Unicode number that applies. In my case, 2588. Convert that to decimal (Because it is in Hex) to 9608 and use an SQL statement Yourfield = ChrW(9608) to view or print it. The W is added to let the program know that this is a Unicode character and not ascii.

I read a lot of ingenious solutions in the forum, but this one seems to be the most straight forward.

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People's Names With Special Characters

Jul 31, 2006

My search has been unsuccessful due to the search function refusing to play nicely with me and the fact that it's mixing up the problems with using special characters with field names, which isn't what I want.

My problem is I have comboboxes that looks up people's name and has a NotInLIst event to allow addition of new person. It uses split function and concentating query to keep data normalized while displaying the full name.

Access trips over, very hard, whenever there is a name that uses special character, which for obvious reasons, causes confusion. Example:

Mike O'Leary
Thomas O'Calloway
Janet Smith-Johnson
Mary-Ann Johnson

Can anyone point me to a snippet I could use to trap for those names and help Access deal with it accordingly?

Thanks in advance.

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Feb 25, 2015

I have a Memo field that is used to be a description of a document. I don't know what the user will put in (could be anything), but it is eventually passed in a string to a query, etc.I discovered during testing that if an apostrophe is entered (Ex: This document explains how to deal with Joe's pleasant disposition.), it breaks my code. I then realized that all reserved words and characters would cause this problem.

I can get around this one just by using Replace(str, "'", "''"). However, I know there are others that will cause problems, and I don't want to end up with a string of replace statements just to fix them.

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Modules & VBA :: Find And Replace Special Characters

Dec 18, 2013

I have a table called: "tb_special_characters" with a field name [character]. In this table are values that I would like to remove from fields in another table ("tb_data", field name [Title]

The values in the "tb_special_characters" are thinks like
.
@
}

I'd like to run a query on tb_data.title that would replace any matching characters in tb_special_characters.character with nothing (I remove and close any spaces).

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Aug 12, 2015

In my database there is one value that requires the use of a /. (This is not as a name of anything...just a value stored in one of the fields.) I have a form which functions beautifully in all other regards, but it produces an error about syntax of the subquery in the expression if I try to use this value as a criteria for a search/filter (screen shot of error message attached).

I've tried using double quotes and square brackets around the / and a in front of it to no avail. I don't have the option of changing the value...it is defined by this multi-billion dollar project. Again, this is just a piece of data in a field in a record which also needs to be a criteria in some searches/filters.

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Apr 29, 2015

I'm trying to export either a report or a query to excel with a field name that has special characters "()". I wouldn't normally ever do this (everyone knows not to use special characters) but we're using this to import the excel document to a website, and the field name MUST be what they specified in order for the import to be successful. Is there any way to rename the field name at export, since I can't use special characters on the query or report itself?

The field name is currently DepType, but it must be
"
*Dependent Type
Spouse/Partner or Child/Dependent
(Required for Dependents only)
"
EXACTLY or it will not import.

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General :: Special Characters In Table Values

May 1, 2013

My database has several tables (and queries) that have fields that contain people's names. Some names, like O'Neil, contain apostrophes. Other fields contain couple names, like Tom & Laura Jones. Both the ' and the & prevent queries, forms, and reports from working correctly.

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Jul 31, 2013

In vba I need to check a specific field (ID) for special characters used in that field. The characters to check for are:

' " ! * # & ^ % $ " : ; | < > ? @ { } [ ]

The code I have is:

strSQL = "SELECT ......... "

Set rs = db.OpenRecordset(strSQL)

rs.MoveFirst

Do While Not rs.EOF
rstTest.AddNew
rstTest("ID").value = rs![ID]
rstTest.Update
rs.MoveNext
Loop

I need to know what I should put after "SELECT

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Feb 20, 2014

I use the below code as part of a database which creates documents and then saves them using data from the form fields.

Every now and again one of the form fields contains a "special" character such as /,@,& and this prevents the file from saving.

Is there a simple addition to the below code to remove special characters from the file name if there is one present?

It causes all sorts of issues as many people don't realise that there has been a problem until it is too late.

Code:
objWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 FileName:="C:UsersPublic" & Forms![Front Page]![Site 2 Name] _
& " " & Forms![Front Page]![Combo79] & " " & "O2" & ".doc"
objWord.ActiveDocument.Close

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Jul 29, 2013

I have an asset database I am designing to manage our computer inventory and assets.

I am trying to get a DLookup to work with one of my forms that will auto-populate some of the fields depending on what is entered in to the ProductID field. For instance, Make, Model, Asset type...

My problem is that the string that returns contains special characters, specifically "#" and gives me the error message -

Run-time error '3075':
Syntax error in date in query expression 'productID=EN371UA#ABA'.

My expression is definitely working, it just looks like it things it has something to do with date/time which it does not. Unfortunately, most HP equipment contains a # in the Product ID number.

Here is my expression -

Private Sub ProductIDCombo_AfterUpdate()
Make = DLookup("Make", "productlist", "productID=" & [ProductIDCombo])
End Sub

Make is the field I am looking up from the ProductList table. The Product ID is the ID I'm looking up from the ProductList table to find the make. My problem is actually getting it to return the correct value of "HP or Dell or Lenovo". etc.

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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 24, 2013

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Mar 28, 2014

I have a table with acct numbers of various lengths, ie:

246
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I need to run a query so that all of the acct numbers are 8 characters long with zeros as placeholders in front of the actual acct numbers, ie:

00000246
00000018
00036895
00352119
00000472

I tried using the expression NewAcctNo: 00000000+[AcctNo], but that did not fix the problem.

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Feb 6, 2014

I have been downloading .csv files from a construction website that we use to following projects as they develop. I import the file into Excel and then want to bring it into my database. The issue is with two fields I have that are numeric, however, when downloaded into Excel, the information in the two fields now have an (')added to the beginning and end of the string, i.e. and the second field has an (') and (-) to the data.

'201400409710'
'201300697683'

The second field is a zipcode field that comes in like this:

'14063-1127'
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I would like to design a query to strip the ' from each field as well as the (-) in the zipcode field.If I have to write 2 separate queries that is fine.

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Apr 3, 2006

How to search an Access table for unwanted <cr> characters

Occasionally a stray carriage return <cr> Ascii 013 character finds its way into an Access table. These destroy the database when the table is processed by an outside utility for data cleansing.

To prevent this from happening, we have been told to clean the table before submitting it, i.e. remove all of the following:

carriage return, comma, double quotes, equals, greater than, smaller than

Is there any utility available which will remove all these characters when being run only once? (i.e. not find/replace which has to be started separately for each of these characters)

How do I search for a <cr>, even with find/replace?

Thanks.

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I am building a database for a client who manufactures car parts. I have a table to store vehicle model. Each model has a date range of production. I have two build dates from and to. Both of these fields are setup as date fields on the table. I made both fields required with a mask for validation. In the "build date to" field if a car is still in production I need to leave the field blank. Is there any special character that will allow me to store a required field blank.

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I need to find out where the field called "R_SHIFT" is being referenced in all our MS Access queries. I just need the query name so I can go into the query and change the name from "R_SHIFT" to "SHIFT"

I was thinking there was a function for Modules to Find Field? I have never done any Modules before..

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May 14, 2013

I need to be able to print records for certain students showing their best and worst results for each exercise. Must be printed in portrait A4. Each student must be on a new page. I am trying to create a query which will find the results for studentID AA111 and DS1119. For each student:

- Find the best and worst RepsOrTime for each exercise
- Display studentID, StudentSurname, StudentForename, ExerciseID, Description, Best and worst RepsOrTime
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Please see attached document.

I can find the result for one student id but when i try putting both student ids in it returns no result, also, I do not know how to rename best records best and worst records worst.For this i have two headings shown as RepsOrTime and it shows the max and min value for each exercise.

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