Separating data combined in a string with a ";" delimiter

Post Author: debbethune
CA Forum: General
I have a couple fields from my file that contain data separated by a semicolon (AddOn and AddOnChg). Field is formatted as a string. How can I parse out the one component that has a value in order to be able to add up the values in the report?
InvcNum InvcDate AddOn AddOnChg
00113138 5/2/07 IFRTN;;;; 421.93;0;0;0;0

Post Author: SKodidine
CA Forum: General
You can use the split function, however if you want to know which component has a value, you might have to loop through the field. Hopefully there are set number of separators for each field.
For example,
stringvar x := 'IFRTN;;;;'
split(x,';')[1] will give you IFRTN and split(x,';')[2] will give you empty field.

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