Number format for summary field

[enquirerfm]

I have created a summary field which shows a number - say $434,567. I want the field to return $435 eg thousands of dollars. Not really clear how to do this... many thanks for any help.

[Lee Smith]

Hi enquirerfm,

This will work for the data you presented.

Left ( number ; Position (  amount ; "," ; 1 ; 1 )  - 1 )

or

Right( Left( Round( amount ; 0 ); Length( Round( amount ; 0 )) - 3 ); 3)

Try this Calculation, it was provide by comment.

It's very versatile, all you have to do is change "n = 1" (n = 2 or n = 3 etc. ) to extract a different part.

Let ( [
YourField = amount ;
n = 1 ;
t = "," & YourField & "," ;
start = Position ( t ; "," ; 1 ; n ) + 1 ;
end = Position ( t ; "," ; 1 ; n + 1 ) 
] ;
Middle ( t ; start ; end - start )
)

HTH

Lee

[doughemi]

With the reasonable assumption that the Summary field is a number field  (with the comma inserted by the Inspector for display), you could use

Int(YourSummaryField/1000) 

Lee's answers are all based on the field being a text field with the comma being actually part of the data, which I would not expect in a Summary field.