[OT] Need a simple FileMaker script

Vaughn Clement vclement at gmail.com
Thu Aug 1 19:49:04 EDT 2013


Hi Jacque

Actually it is very much the same as LiveCode


Field Name1&" "&Field Name2  this will concatenate two fields. into a new
calculation field where the results are shown.

Thank you

Vaughn Clement

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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:33 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> This seems like it shouldn't be too hard, but I don't know FileMaker. Does
> anyone know how to:
>
> 1. Get the text in one cell
> 2. Concatenate the first 5 characters (or as many as exist) of the first 3
> words
> 3. Put the value into another cell
>
> Do that for every record.
>
> So, if the text in cell A5 is "Every good boy does fine", cell A6 would
> contain "EveryGoodBoy".
>
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