Hi All,

Cell phone numbers in Bangkok are being expanded from 9 digits to 10 digits next week, and I need a calculation (I think) to make our member database reflect that change. I need to insert an "8" after the first number (a zero).

Example

01-XXX-XXXX will become

081-XXX-XXXX

084-XXX-XXXX, 086-XXX-XXXX, etc

My field (Mobile) is defined as text.

Seems simple enough, but it's beyond my understanding. I've been scouring the help files and trying to find something similar in these forums, but no joy. I just cannot figure what function to use to create the calculation. I've been using FMPro for a while now, but my needs have been quite simple.

Thanks, Joette

How about:

Replace ( Mobile ; 2 ; 0 ; "8" )

Oh, wow, that was fast! And that did it!

Can you tell me what it means?

The 2 means the second digit? but what does the 0 mean?

If I understand, I can better figure this sort of thing out in future. Maybe

So helpful!

Joette, below is the syntax for replace:

Replace ( text ; start ; numberOfCharacters ; replacementText )

The zero indicates that a character will be added at the second location, if you wanted to replace the second character with an 8 you would set this to 1, or even higher to replace more characters.

Rod

Actually, the zero indicates that zero characters will be replaced. Or, if you like, 'nothing' will be replaced by 'something' - which is another way to describe 'insert'. Thanks to Søren Dyhr for coming up with this.