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Devesh_Srivastava
Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2012 6:58 AM
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Hi,

Below is the expression i am trying to make work :

substring ("Archive_Full_20120731200002",1, (FINDSTRING( "Archive_Full_20120731200002","Full_", 1)-2))

Whe I use the exact string(Archive_Full_20120731200002) , I get the required result i.e Archive
But when I use a variable which contains th same string, the above expression gives the error that
Substring can allow -ve integer values( Here -2)

Please help me in this regard. I need to use a variable here and get it work.

Your help is appreciated!!!

Thanks
Devesh
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Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2012 8:12 AM


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Please post the expression which you tried - the one which gives the error.

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Below is the expression to be evaluated:

Substring (@Variable,1, (FINDSTRING( @Variable,"Full_", 1)-2))

@Variable is the variable containing the exact string 'Archive_Full_20120731200003'

But when i used this as a expression, it gives the error that substring does not allow -ve integer values.

Kindly help.
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Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2012 12:29 PM
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Substring cannot take negative values for the length argument.
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Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:50 PM
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substring ("Archive_Full_20120731200002",1, (FINDSTRING( "Archive_Full_20120731200002","Full_", 1)-2))

Then how come the above expression is working where the exact string is used instead of a variable and still negative value is accepted!!! Does it make sense ?
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Works for me. I suspect that you may have got your variable syntax wrong. Here is my version:

Substring (@[User::TestString],1, (FINDSTRING(@[User::TestString] ,"Full_", 1)-2))

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Devesh_Srivastava (8/1/2012)
substring ("Archive_Full_20120731200002",1, (FINDSTRING( "Archive_Full_20120731200002","Full_", 1)-2))

Then how come the above expression is working where the exact string is used instead of a variable and still negative value is accepted!!! Does it make sense ?


Good question. I only know that when attempting to put in a negative value for length in a much simpler expression, it errored on negative value of length parameter.
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Devesh_Srivastava (8/1/2012)
substring ("Archive_Full_20120731200002",1, (FINDSTRING( "Archive_Full_20120731200002","Full_", 1)-2))

Then how come the above expression is working where the exact string is used instead of a variable and still negative value is accepted!!! Does it make sense ?


Good question. I only know that when attempting to put in a negative value for length in a much simpler expression, it errored on negative value of length parameter.



The result of 

FINDSTRING( "Archive_Full_20120731200002","Full_", 1) -2

is 7. That's not a negative value where I come from

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Not talking about the result, talking about the length argument.

I created a simple expression using -2 as length and was unable to save the expression due to "length cannot accept negative number" (okay, not a direct quote, but teh error was specific and when I changed length to positive number, no issues).
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herladygeekedness (8/2/2012)
Not talking about the result, talking about the length argument.

I created a simple expression using -2 as length and was unable to save the expression due to "length cannot accept negative number" (okay, not a direct quote, but teh error was specific and when I changed length to positive number, no issues).




??

The expression I quoted was only the length argument - from the OP's example.

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