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JonathanHeuer
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4 years ago

Find position of text string in larger string

I have a long string in my Services table, the result of a Combined Text Summary field, each element takes the pattern V###-#### (where the number parts of the string are arbitrary length). For exampl...
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MarkShnier__You
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..Jonathan,  was there a problem with using my solution an an approach?

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JonathanHeuer
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4 years ago
I haven't implemented it yet, but I think it would work fine. I was just hoping to find a solution which didn't limit the size of the array. Right now there are <10, but it could grow by quite a bit.

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    MarkShnier__You
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    4 years ago
    Right, I think that you will find that using the formula language in the formula field boxes, you will not be able to generate an array.

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