Adding a substring within an Essbase calc script

Question

All,
I need to do something a bit unusual. I need to take a value from one Account member and assign it to another, using a portion of the account member name.
For example:
fix ("fy12", "jan", "actual")
"001"(
"PostAllocated"->"995"->"995_In"->"997_Out"->"*ACCOUNT_XXX*" = "PostAllocated"->"995"->"995_In"->"997_Out"->"*ACCOUNT_XXX*" +
("Run1"->"PreAllocated"->"000"->"IC_InLoadMember"->"IC_OutLoadMember"->"APLoadMember") * ("Run1"->"PercentAllocated"->"000"->"001_AP"->"995_In"->"997_Out"->"NA_Entity"->"AcctLoadMember");
endfix
where "ACCOUNT_XXX" is where I'd like it to be 58321_XXX , for example. This will not be fixed on any specific accounts, it will apply to all accounts so in this case we want it to take the substring of the left side of the account member name and apply it to membername_XXX, a different account.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

At the risk of being hit over the head with a stick...
An alternative means of accomplishing this:
You can write a Java CDF that easily and in simple syntax handle your string mangling needs here.
I would create a couple:
String @SubString(String wholeString, double start, double length)
String @Concat(String start, String End)
In fact its quite possible that one of the Essbase Labs CDFs already handles this requirement.
Regards,
Robb Salzmann