Reformatting A Text Field With Spaces
Dec 7, 2006
Hi
I have a table with postcodes (1.6M rows) that have had all the spaces removed. I want to match another table to it and ordinarily would have removed the spaces from the postcodes in that but I think because of the vol (2.5M rows) Access is reluctant (it either crashes or only updates a few thousand).
A better way would be to reformat the postcode using some SQL or VBA code. The trouble is the postcodes are different numbers of characters and the space would either need to be after the 3rd when there are 6 characters or after the 4th when there are 7 characters.
eg PO121DL becomes PO12 1DL
PO91UL becomes PO9 1UL
I can concatenate fields and count characters but am unsure as to the best way to approach this in terms of coding and structure? Using Access 2002.
Any thoughts/tips etc would be appreciated thanks
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Jun 28, 2006
We have a table with approx 2m records. Just three fields:
Key (primary)
Postcode
Postcode reference
The problem is with the postcodes. Many of these have a double space in them such as this DE13 7EL but we need DE13 7EL.
Find and Replace runs into a problem because of the number of records.
An update query seems obvious but we can't figure out what to put in Update to as this appears to return the literal value.
We are not VBA programmers so that isn't really an option for us.
How can we strip out that extra space?
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May 29, 2007
Hi,
I have an address field currently formatted 1 Streetname, city, post/zip code it is displayed on a form within a multi-line textbox. I'd like to change the commas to a line return so it will display
1 streetname
city
postcode
I was thinking that a small macro might go through each record and change the comma to a line return? But not sure where to start exactly?
many thanks in advance. Harry
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Sep 21, 2005
Access 2000. I have table of many hundreds of records. One of th fields of text looks like this: XXXXXXXXXXXX and I want it to look like this: XXX XXX XXX XXX by adding the spaces. Would someone please show me how to write the function or code to add the spaces to the text as shown : Thanks :o
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Feb 2, 2006
I have two questionaire forms in a database. There are no tables or queries involved.
The answers to each questionaire are compiled into text boxes, one on each Form. On the main form I have another text box that puts all the answers together so that this can be transferred to another program. An example of what is in each text box is as follows:
Text1: IIf([Check325]=True,[Combo77] & " " & [Combo59] & " " & [Text65] & " " & [Text69],"") & " " & IIf([Check329]=True,[Combo78] & " " & [Combo61] & " " & [Text66] & " " & [Text70],"")
Text2: IIf([Check326]=True,[Combo102] & "" & [Combo188] & " " & [Combo91] & " " & [Text94] & " " & [Text97],"") & " " & IIf([Check330]=True,[Combo103] & " " & [Combo92] & " " & [Text95] & " " & [Text98],"")
These are just small extractions. My problem is, if an answer is not necessary in the first lot of text, but an answer has been supplied in the second lot, how do I remove the spacing that has resulted from my Formula in Text1. -
e.g: Normal answers would show perhaps
Yes Twice 16 25 Red Peter Ford Football 1965 - Whereby the first 4 answers are from Text1 and the remaining answers from Text2.
If some answers are not necessary from Text1 I would get the following result:
SPACE SPACE SPACE Twice Red Peter Ford Football 1965
Any assistance would be gratefully accepted.
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I've inherited a database into which the user (not me) is entering essentially the same Date data twice: field 1 contains 6/19/2014 and for field 2 they enter June-14 (the month and year from field 1).
I suspect there should be a way to derive and then reformat the display of field 2 based on the contents of field 1, such that the user only has to enter the first. Is this true? If so, how?
(I know there really is no need for the 2nd field, but existing reports and queries are built around it -- so for right now, I'm just trying to eliminate the duplicate data entry)...
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Nov 10, 2004
Hi members,
I have two empty columns in my access database whose total width is supposed to be 385 chars (255+130). I am trying to find a way to be able to export this blank field with a total of 385 blank spaces onto an ASCII text file.
A sample row looks like this:
L ***** 385spaces needed here ***** 888888 EXAMPLE DEALER NAME 1234 EXAMPLE LANE EXAMPLE ADDRESS LINE 2 EXAMPLE CITY CA88888 80088812348008881234FORD JOE DEALER NAME 8008881234
After the first letter L in position 1, I need to have 385 blank spaces and then at 387th place I have some other data to follow.
I tried a lot to use the export wizard, but it doesn't help. Is there a way to do this?
I would really appreciate any help.
Thanks,
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Sep 28, 2006
I have a table that for some reason when I imported the data, placed some spaces before about 75% of the numbers in only one column. I need these numbers to be exactly the same as in another table because I use this number to compare to records and import other data depending on the corresponding numbers.
I tried doing a find and replace, but for some reason it doesn't find the spaces to replace. If I type in the space and the number, then in the replace with type only the number, it works. But I cannot do that since there are literally 10's of thousands of different numbers.
Someone mentioned a "LTRIM" command. Does this work within Access and if so, how does it work?
Thanks,
David
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Nov 2, 2007
I have an imported file coming from another department and the one of the field names I need to use has spaces. I have tried " " and [] but they don't work. What is the proper syntax for this?
origfield = rst.Fields("FVH PLAN")
Thanks.
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Apr 16, 2007
Hi all,
I have an Access DB with hundres of queries and reports, now I have to use an external DB (Oracle) and export data keeping the rest, no problem with that, I have added linked tables through odbc and works fine.
My problem is that some of the tables have field names with spaces, and Oracle doesn't admit them. Does anybody knows how to solve it without having to modify all the queries, etc?, I've been thinking about aliases or views over the linked table but I haven't found a way to create these.
Any help?
Thanks
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Apr 20, 2006
I need help. I'm trying to do an update query to delete extra spaces in a field
I want to Change 1234[space][space][space]Elm[space][space] St.
to
1234[space]Elm[space]St.
Thanks,
Vern
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Jun 9, 2015
I'm trying to improve the dialer that i place on microsoft access forms. basically there's a command button that dials the number that is in a text box, but we have a new job that's just come in that requires numbers to be copied and pasted into the text box. these numbers have a space between the dialing code and the telephone number and i need to make the dialer check for a space and remove it before dialing.
Here's the code for the dialing buttons:-
Private Sub cmd_Dial_Click()
On Error GoTo Err_cmd_dial_Click
CT.MakeCall "8" & txt_telephone.Value & "#", "", False, "", "", False
[code]...
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Aug 30, 2006
Hi Folks,
I am creating an IF CASE statement in SQL that basically takes the 2 last characters in a field and if they happen to be 'HX' then a special rate is used to calculate the cost whereas if their is no 'HX' as the last 2 characters of the field then a different rate is applied.
(Right([BOARD SPEC DATA],2)) has always worked flawlessly in SQL to render similar solutions. However, unfortunetly the weekly extract that comes into us permits for massive amounts of blank but real spaces after the data in [BOARD SPEC DATA] field so what ends up happening is that (Right([BOARD SPEC DATA],2)) yields a (SPACE SPACE) value even thou many of these values should be 'HX' as they are the last 2 real non-space values at the end of the field.
If there any easy way to fix this keeping in mind that this is how we get the extract everyweek so a search/replace on spaces won't work ... is there any way I can use a Right command but ignore spaces so that it simply renders the 2 real characters at the end of the field as oppossed to blank spaces?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much,
Joe
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GOAL - I would like to have one text box where I enter a sentence
txtKeywords: Access Is For Smart People Smarter Than I
I would like to create a button when clicked moves txtKeywords into another textbox [txtKeywordscombined] field and removes the spaces between the words and adds hyphens
txtKeywordscombined: Access-Is-For-Smart-People-Smarter-Than-I
Would I use the 'Replace' command in even procedures to do this? Another way? Example?
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Aug 27, 2007
Hi all,
I am putting this in General because, frankly, I have no idea where it belongs.
I have a table that looks something like this:
Serial...Part.....Batch
1001......1.........A
1001......2.........A
1001......3.........B
1002......1.........A
1002......2.........B
1002......3.........B
1003...
How can set up a form, or a new table, or something so that the data is displayed like this:
............1.........2..........3
1001......A.........A.........B
1002......A.........B.........B
1003...
You see what I am trying to do? I am trying to make the Parts a column header, and kind of remove Serial/Part/Batch titles.
My first instinct was to take it into Excel and make a pivot table out of it, but that doesn't seem to work? The pivot table keeps counting up everything, and I don't want anything counted, I just want all data displayed.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
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I know where it is. I am trying to link two table by using a field which is a string in one to link to a field which is a number of some kind in the other. I can;t change the formats of these as it's a query i'm running on a database i don't control. I understand I need to convert the format of one of the fields in a query and then link using that, but when i try to reformat the number it doesn't do what i'm expecting after reading the help.
in the help it suggest using this:
Format(expression[, format[, firstdayofweek[, firstweekofyear]]])
So i'm trying to use that to reformat the string field to a number so i can use that query.
Numbers: Use predefined named numeric formats or create user-defined numeric formats: This is where i fail completely!! it just rejects everything i write in my query.
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Many thanks for your help, we can find a good way to clean this up...
Genevatexan
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[Event Procedure]
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Mar 26, 2014
We have a database that we use to track the tablets in our organization, a combination of Apple, Android, and Windows.
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ANDROID01
ANDROID02
ANDROID03
WINDOWS01
WINDOWS02
In the database we use the field name HOSTNAME for these entries. When sorting the field, due to it being a text field, we get the traditional sort of
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APPLE10
APPLE100
APPLE101
APPLE11
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ANDROID01
ANDROID02
ANDROID10
ANDROID100
ANDROID101
ANDROID11
ANDROID110
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APPLE01
APPLE02
APPLE10
APPLE11
APPLE100
APPLE101
APPLE110
ANDROID01
ANDROID02
ANDROID10
ANDROID11
ANDROID100
ANDROID101
ANDROID110
What is the best way to tackle this?
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