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MiddleTransform ( _text ; _delimiter ; _occurrance ; _newdelimiter )

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Grabs all text from a variable starting delimiter and to the end of the field with the possibility to substitute the new text with a different delimiter.

Sample Input:
MiddleTransform ( "205|chuck|liddell|1969|San Luis Obispo|Santa Barbara|The Iceman" ; "|" ; 3 ; "¶" )
Sample Output:
1969
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
The Iceman


 Then copy & paste into FileMaker Advanced's Edit Custom Function window.

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Description:

Grabs all text from a variable starting delimiter and to the end of the field with the possibility to substitute the new text with a different delimiter.

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