Wrong Position!

[Richard Sillitto]

Hi All,

I wonder if anyone can help me.

I've tried to create a function that extracts a filename off the end of a filepath on a mac of the format:

"RAID:Thisfolder:anotherfolder:Thefilename.pdf"

I thought this should be relatively easy - using a RIGHT function, and using Position to find the last ":".

But Position returns the wrong position count, and I can't see why.

Any ideas?

Richard.

[comment]

Position returns the wrong position count

Such as?

[bruceR]

Let([ p = "RAID:Thisfolder:anotherfolder:Thefilename.pdf";

plines = substitute( p; ":"; "¶");

pn = valuecount ( plines)];

getValue( plines; pn)

)

[Richard Sillitto]

That works - thanks!

It's similar to a custom function I was trying to use - but didn't work.

And in response to the other chap who said "such as" - I started to compose a response showing how it _didn't_ work, and then realised that my test database was working as expected. That led to more confusion for me - so sorry that I didn't get back to you directly straight away!

Thanks all.

Richard.