Re: [xsl] concat with unspecific length

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2012-06-18 14:39 +0100, henry human wrote:
> Hello
> I have following xml bellow and want to concat together as here:
> Field1 [from position 1, length varies] + " " [until position 11] +
> Field2 [from position 12] + " " [until position 16]+ Field3 [from 
> position 17, length always 10] +
> " " [until position 27] + Field4
>
>
> Input
> <Field1>2000090691</Field1>
>
> <Field2>0010</Field2>
>
> <Field3>2000090690</Field3>
>
> <Field4>0010</Field14>

Pad each field with spaces and then take what you need:

concat(
substring(concat(Field1,'           '),1,11),
substring(concat(Field2,'    '),1,5),
substring(concat(Field3,'          '),1,10),
Field4
)

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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