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SUBSTR of a Memo field returns a Memo field?!
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07/07/2005 11:23:58
 
 
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06/07/2005 09:11:32
Jay Johengen
Altamahaw-Ossipee, North Carolina, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows 2000 SP4
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01029401
Message ID:
01029973
Views:
13
>Use a SQL statemetn, I was trying to break a Memo field into blocks of 250 characters, but when I used SUBSTR(MyMemo,1,250) I get another Memo field. If I use LEFT, it returns a Character field. I need to get about 10 blocks of 250 characters. This needs to be quick and easy, that's why I didn't try to do the OLE thing. Any thoughts?

Try using mline() ( you may need to set the line size of the memo field to 250 first, if each field being 250 chars is a requirement, but if you just want to parse the memo field into character fields, try setting the char field sizes to 250 and using mline(i) to get each line into a field.


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