Substring or slice function in ISF

substring or slice function in ISF
rc2008.3
Oracle10g
Websphere 6.1
IE6 & IE7
Has anyone used either the ".substring(x,y)" or ".slice(x,y)" functions in version 2008?
I tried the following javascript on load and I get blank results.
a0001_CMN_PARSE_CUSTOMER_OTHER()
var mgr=serviceForm.Customer_Information.Other.getValue();
mgr=mgr.slice (6,3);
alert(mgr);
serviceForm.Customer_Information.Other contains "uid=dfaus00,o=people"
Thank you
Daniel

I recently had a field that was comma separated. I used the split function, which tokenizes a string and returns an array of strings, based on a separator char that you pass to the function. You can either loop through the array or reference an array element directly.
var strlArray = new Array();
strArray = str.split(","); //tokenize string
for ( i in strArray) {
var value = strArray[i];
.... //process each token
var value = strArray[0] //reference

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SUBSTR and INSTR function

Hi Gurus,
I have the data as follows:
data
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CAI
452-01-32201-47001
452-01-32201-471
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Thanks,
Alex

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2 as
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4 select 'BIDIE01H/TXT:ZUNE=HA111, CellIndex=124 /CAI:452-01-32201-471/CAI:45201F7dc9b79b' from dual
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8                )
9    from data
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Dynamic PL/SQL & substr, instr function

I am having trouble with incorporating the SUBSTR and INSTR functions into my dynamic PL/SQL procedure using Oracle 8i.
I have data that is packed into one column seperated by a delimiter (':')
I need to seperate the data to use indicidual pieces.
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ORA-06512: at line 1

You are getting an error because updatestring is longer than the 100 characters you defined it as. Try using VARCHAR2(4000). Also, if you are trying to generate the sql statement, you need to get rid of first=, second= and third= when you build the string.
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Thanks for jumping in on this and I am glad you asked :).
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What am i missing?
Thanks
Kech
Solved!
Go to Solution.

The Find function evaluates to a number:
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