Xlate STRING Action – Using fields, temp variables?

[Jim Kosloskey]

Cloverleaf 6.1.1.

I am trying to put together some training.

It does not appear in 6.1.1 that the arguments to the various STRING Action functions (for example xlateStrSubstring) allows the use of temp variable  as arguments.

The format is ‘xlateStrSubstring first last’ It woild be nice to be able to do something like this ‘xlateStrSubString @my_first @my_last’. I guess if Temp Variable could be referenced then I would think using actual Data Fields or even ITERATE Variables would be useful.

I think it would make the Action more functional. For example multiple STRING Actions could be aggregated in the same Xlate to achieve more complex solutions.

Does anyone know if this can be done in 6.1.2 or 6.2?

Thanks

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

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[Levy Lazarre]

Jim,

I can confirm that this doesn’t work in 6.1.2. Triggers a “bad index” error.

The index must be an integer or end+-

I haven’t played with 6.2 yet, but I don’t think this functionality is there either.

[Jim Kosloskey]

Levy,

Thanks for checking. Now I know.

I guess I will do a poll to get the communities feel before considering an Enhancement Request.

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[Lina Patel]

Xlate date field is YYYYMMDD or YYYYMMDDmmss

I only need YYYYMMDD

xlateStrSubstring 0 5

xlateStrSubstring 1 6

Above two functions do not seem to work,

How can I obtain YYYYMMDD in Xlate.

Thank you!

[Levy Lazarre]

Lina,

To get the first 8 characters, you should use:

Code:

xlateStrSubstring 0 7

I hope this helps.

[Lina Patel]

Of course – Thank you! 🙂

See it now…

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