Calculation to format Canadian Postal Code

[Mother Barbara]

I need to format a postal code. I have about 400 of them in my database and this code includes both letters & numbers (example: K0J1L0 is what was imported. I need it to appear

K0J 1L0). It seems easy enough to add this space between the first 3 and last 3 letters/numbers. I used the following:

Let (

imput = Filter (Postal Code; "0123456789")

; Left (imput; 3) & " " & Right (imput; 3)

)

I formated the calculation to be text.

Yet it returned values that were only numbers! All of the letters became numbers!

Can you help?

[Lee Smith]

The filter return the expect results I believe.

It Filtered out everything except the "0123456789" as it reads.

In the USA, this would probably what you wanted, but I'm not familiar with the Canada's Zips patterns, so maybe you can provide a few examples of what you have now, and what you want as the results.

Lee

Edited September 25, 2006 by Guest

[Mother Barbara]

Hi Lee! Thanks! I figured out the problem last night after posting. I removed the filtering line and it works fine now. Thanks for all of your help!

[BobWeaver]

You probably still need the filter to remove any non-alphanumeric characters that the user may enter, because the user may or may not enter a space between the 3rd and 4th character.

Also note, the letters D, F, I, O, Q and U are not used. So, you could set up your filter function like this:

Filter("0123456789ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVWXYZ"

Let (

input = Filter (Postal Code; "0123456789ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVWXYZ"); 

case(Length(input)<>6;"**INVALID**";Left (input; 3) & " " & Right (input; 3))

)