>I need an example via fox sql, of (if any) pulling the zip-code out of a city,state zip field unfortunately the data has been captured in this one field for years and I need to break it out. There are no constants i.e. (city, state zip), (city state zip), (city-state-zip) or (city, state zip). The zip can be from 5 to 9 numbers in char. Help : )
Can you provide a few sample field contents?
How would a human recognize where each part starts?
Some functions that may help you: at(), strtran(), substr().
Hilmar.
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