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Not sure what do you mean by &quot;sum the string&quot; - put them all together side by side or perform a actual SUM function on the values?<br />
If you just want to concatenate all data you can add a new filed that contains the value from all these 4 fields combined together.
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Not sure what do you mean by "sum the string" - put them all together side by side or perform a actual SUM function on the values?
If you just want to concatenate all data you can add a new filed that contains the value from all these 4 fields combined together.

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To clarify, I want to sum all the &quot;1&quot; values. &nbsp;For example, the value I would like to be calculated from my data example above would be &quot;54&quot; as there are fifty four instances of the number 1.
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To clarify, I want to sum all the "1" values.  For example, the value I would like to be calculated from my data example above would be "54" as there are fifty four instances of the number 1.

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What reporting tool are you using?<br />
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mlmcc
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What reporting tool are you using?

mlmcc

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Method 2 did the job! Thank you so much for answering my question and helping me learn! :)
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Method 2 did the job! Thank you so much for answering my question and helping me learn! :)

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I have four fields that are all 144 char in length and data type is String. &nbsp;The value is either 0 or 1 with no separating characters or spaces, and I want to sum the string. &nbsp;Data example is:<br />
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00000000000000000000000000<wbr />0000000000<wbr />0000000000<wbr />0000000000<wbr />0000000000<wbr />0000000000<wbr />0000000000<wbr />0000111111<wbr />1111111111<wbr />1111111111<wbr />1111111111<wbr />1111111111<wbr />11111111<br />
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Thank you in advance for your assistance!<br />
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BethS
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I have four fields that are all 144 char in length and data type is String.  The value is either 0 or 1 with no separating characters or spaces, and I want to sum the string.  Data example is:

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

Thank you in advance for your assistance!

BethS

sum String field values of 0 and 1 in Crystal Reports

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