Splitting Text Fields

[Hank Westscott]

I have a field that contacts two words separated by a ",".
How can I separate "Westscott, Hank" into two
fields "Westscott" and "Hank" since all the names are of
different lengths?

 

[MGFoster]

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If using Access 2000 & greater use the Split() function:

Dim a() As string

a = Split(Variable, ",")

a(1) will have "Westcott"
a(2) will have " Hank"

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[CJ]

Just a minor point of clarification as the first item is
returned as array (0)...
a(0) will have "Westcott"
a(1) will have " Hank"

and if you have the original data as "Westcott, Hank,
Wayne"

a(2) will return " Wayne"

OK?
CJ

 

[John Vinson]

I have a field that contacts two words separated by a ",".
How can I separate "Westscott, Hank" into two
fields "Westscott" and "Hank" since all the names are of
different lengths?

You can use the Instr() function to find the position of the comma,
and then the Left() and Mid() functions to extract substrings:

LastName: Left([namefield], InStr([namefield], ",") - 1)
FirstName: Trim(Mid([namefield], InStr([namefield], ",") + 1))