[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: INSTR with an Occurrence that needs to be a variable - help please!

[Patrick Tingen]

Do you need to have this in SQL? In the good old ABL this would be almost trivial DEFINE VARIABLE cString AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO. cString = 'hello world (12) (23)'. MESSAGE ENTRY(1, ENTRY(NUM-ENTRIES(cString,'('), cString,'('), ')') VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFORMATION BUTTONS OK.

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