I'm trying to specify a calculation for a field (ExampleField) that contains data from a text field (MyTextField) but I want to replace any quote marks in MyTextField with the word " inches"... I would write it like this:

ExampleField=

Case(PatternCount(MyTextField, """)=1, " inches")

But, of course, I get an error. Filemaker sees:

Case(PatternCount(MyTextField, ""

")=1, "

inches [a field]

") [expects a closing quote mark]

I tried creating a global text field called QuoteMark containing a " and wrote the calculation as follows:

ExampleField=

Case(PatternCount(MyTextField, QuoteMark)=1, " inches")

but that didn't work either. Anyone have any suggestions? Can I search by teh quote mark character's ASCII value?

zack

You may have smart quotes turned on in the document preferences. There are 3 different double quotes, the plain one, the opening curly quote, and the closing curly quote, You are probably looking for the wrong one. You could try:

Substitute(Substitute(Substitute(MyTextField,pQ,"inches"),ocQ,"inches"),ccQ,"inches")

where pQ, ocQ and ccQ are globals which contain a plain quote, an open curly quote and closing curly quote respectively.

Also, make sure that your globals are defined as text, not number.