Today I would like to share another mini tip about Business Central, how to extract characters from a string.
For example, we want to know what the fourth letter of a customer’s name is, or want to add a space between each character. How to do it?
Tag Archives: String
Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to save large text/string in the table
Today I would like to talk about how to save large text/string in the Business Central table.
I was asked this question the other day, they want to save a large text in the table. e.g. length of the text is 10,000 characters. However, because of system limitations, it is not possible to create such a long text field.
D365 Business Central : StringConversionManagement Codeunit
There are lots of Management Codeunit in D365 Business Central. Let us talk about one of them which is StringConversionManagement Codeunit. There are currently four procedures in this Codeunit that you can call:
– WindowsToASCII
– GetPaddedString
– RemoveDecimalFromString
– RemoveNonAlphaNumericCharacters
Do you get a fuzzy feeling when you’re comparing strings in AL?
What do you do when you need to determine if two strings are almost the same? Check it out in the video:
Search for a string (or a TAG) in .al files with Powershell
Migrating, upgrading, recoding & refactoring the older versions of Dynamics NAV to Business Central you will (or can find) find a lot of documentation tracked both in the Documentation and development notes \ TAG sections within the code.
Two generations of string functions in AL
In this video, I take a look at the new set of string functions that AL has gained over C/AL.
Video: Hacks with the Query String
I finally got my youtube setup running, here’s the first video, Hacks with the Query String.