>Hello all,
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>I am using the ATC() function to locate a substring within a memo field. I will find the string I am looking for and determine the starting position and length of the substring to return the needed substring. This was working because I assumed a certain character would never be used in the memo field and this character is now being used. Now I want to search for that string with only numeric values following it. For example, I want to extract a price from a memo field that has and '@' sign followed by a space and then some numeric value.
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>Can I use the ATC() function to search for a string with a wildcard for numerics, and if so what is the wildcard? Or is there another function I can use to do this?
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>TIA

You ALWAYS, (ALWAYS!!!) have something like this:
@ 123123.123asdasdasdasdasdasd

Then you could use:

?VAL(SUBSTR(YourMemo, ATC("@ ", YourMemo)+2))

VAL function will remove all non numeric chars at the end of the expression.
so if you have:

lcStr = "bla bla @ 12324.55asdasdasd"
?VAL(SUBSTR(lcStr, ATC("@ ", lcStr)+2)) && -> 12324.55