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I know this can be done alot easier than we are currently, so I thought I would ask for your suggestions. I have a field that contains "SALES ORDER 644535 AND LINE 5. XXXXXXX" We need to pull out the next 4 characters after LINE & put that into a character field length of 4 to be processed later. Now we only want numbers, no characters to be in the end result. In this example we would like to have "0005" placed into our field. Now if the file contained "SALES ORDER 644535 AND LINE 155. xxxxxxxxx" we would need it to have "0155" The field is fixed in length BUT the starting position of LINE could be different.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Thanks in advance
Steve

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