Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations Rhinorhino on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Reducing a String of Letters in a Query!

Status
Not open for further replies.
dutchess

dutchess

IS-IT--Management
Joined
Sep 9, 2003
Messages
6
Location
US
Does anyone know how to change in a query a six string line to a three string line.


Example: I am sorting cities and last three of the zip code "WIL711"
I would like the the query to return a value of just "WIL".

 
Sort by date Sort by votes
MyThree:Left([FieldName],3)

That should do it.

Paul
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
use
Code: 
left([yourField],3)
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Sorry, just in case that's not quite enough info, you would put this expression on the Field line in your query and substitute the name of your string field for [FieldName] in the expression.

Paul
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
That worked great!!! Thank You!!!!
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Sorry for crossposting Paul!
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
nicsin, no problem. There's no way to avoid doing that sort of thing.

Paul
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

C
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Query expression negative to a 0
Replies
6
Views
766
dhookom
dhookom
serino
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Help with a Query.
Replies
13
Views
1K
strongm
strongm
Swi
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Select X of each variation of a field
Replies
8
Views
870
rashmibala
R
TheresAlwaysAWay
  • Question Question
Why does what appears to be a simple append query is pasting 5 duplicate rows?
Replies
9
Views
340
TheresAlwaysAWay
TheresAlwaysAWay
C
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Run-time error '3075': Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression 'Birthday = and Birthmonth ='.
Replies
3
Views
615
OzFoxy
OzFoxy

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top