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insert into table won't allow a string variable's value to be inserted

Zone: Access Coding/Macros

Tags: Microsoft, Access, 2003, remove special characters

Hi,
I have a huge text file which I have split into multiple variables, and now I need to be able to put them into a table. Some of the lines cause changes in the values of some variables, and that seems to be going okay.

However, I just ran across a line that has some text//text, and although the variable contains that, I cannot get it to go into the field. Here is the values portion (or some of it).

, ' " & strcomplaint & " ', ' " & strphysician & " ', Is there something I can put here, around strcomplaint to make it accept the value with the // in the middle? Do I have to split that out? What is in there is fine with the //s.
Susan

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Zone: Microsoft

Question Asked By: skennedy10

Solution Provided By: harfang

Participating Experts: 4

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Comment by harfang

Thanks! As a matter of fact, I did read your question, but knew that // wasn't the issue... so I wrote about single quotes instead on a hunch...
Success with your project!
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Comment by skennedy10

You do answer my questions pretty often! Thank you!

I would be nowhere without EE and all of you Experts!

You really don't think the // was a problem? I know a single one is OK, but that was the record and the part of the record that was hanging, as I stepped through it in the immediate window. I did later find a name with an apostrophe in it, so I took care of that, but that was not what stopped the processing!

Thanks!
Susan

Comment by harfang

You are welcome!

In some programming languages the \ has a special meaning, but not in VB or Jet's SQL. I don't know a language where / is special. I think something else must have stopped the processing: a single quote in that record, a field being too long, or anything else. Anyway, this has solved the problem, right?

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Comment by skennedy10

Right. I am writing a program for use in medical billing of several hospitals' emergency rooms, and some person writes in the complaint, patient's name, etc. This is where the entry was made. "congestion //can't breathe. Well, maybe it was the apostrophe, now that I am writing this. I don't remember if it (apostrophe) was there or not (I will check on Monday when I can access that record again, though). I have no control over what they write, and I am writing a program for an end-user, not myself. I don't want them to have to proofread a 500-line text single field document to find the "problems" before they enter this routine.

I think I put both the ' and the // replace routines on those two fields, so the ' would have caught that ', if there was one. I just cannot remember. HIPAA keeps me from bringing that home.

My program finds dates, keeps one until another similar format is found with a new date, and puts the date on all of the lines in between two different dates.

It has to split this original .txt file into lines and into fields, which, thank goodness, are always typed into a fixed-length field in the ER.

I have learned so very much from all of you at EE that I am able to get a great job in this field which will carry this old retired teacher until and past my "next retirement"!

Thanks, EE responders, all of you, including Harfang! I was upset when someone posted on something I saw last week that they thought $10/month was really a high price. Oh, sooooo wrong!
Susan

Comment by harfang

Thank you for that, and again: success with your new career!
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