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counting spaces

jkinch
in Calculation Engine (Define Fields)

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I have a situation where i need to count the number of leading spaces in a text field. Does anyone have thoughts on how to do this. Please keep in mind that spaces could be anywhere in the text, including trailing. I only wan to count the leading spaces.

Thanks

This seems to work, if your first character other than a space is an letter or digit. It considers punctuation (incl. #@-_., etc.) to be the same as a space however.

Let (

word1 = LeftWords ( Text_; 1 );

Position ( Text_ ; word1 ; 1 ; 1 ) - 1

)

Hi

you can try this calc too...

Length ( GetValue ( Substitute ( yourField ; Trim ( yourField ) ; ¶ ) ; 1 ) )

This counts the leading spaces whatever char is after them. ( and counts the spaces even if there aren't chars ! )

... and, to count the trailing spaces:

Length ( GetValue ( Substitute ( yourField ; Trim ( yourField ) ; ¶ ) ; 2 ) )

Very nice.

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