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Want to display only first 4 characters from another text field

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2009-10-14 12:30:59
gnrltsao
Registered: Oct 6 2009
Posts: 15
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I have a 1D barcode which currently displays the entire last name. I would like to have it display only the first 4 characters from the field "003_Last Name". Does anyone know how I would go about doing this? Substr doesn't seem to work.

var SSN=this.getField("001_SSN").valueAsString;
var PayGroup=this.getField("059_Pay_Group").value;
var last=this.getField("003_Last Name").value
event.value="*"+SSN+PayGroup+"MF01"+last+"*";

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Windows
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2009-10-14 12:40:33
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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Make sure you're getting the valueAsString and then use substr(0,4)

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2009-10-19 06:58:25
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gnrltsao
Registered: Oct 6 2009
Posts: 15
Where would I enter that here? I'm a newbie. Thank you try67.

var SSN=this.getField("001_SSN").valueAsString;
var PayGroup=this.getField("059_Pay_Group").value;
var last=this.getField("003_Last Name").valueAsString;
event.value="*"+SSN+PayGroup+"MF01"+last+"*";
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2009-10-19 07:18:10
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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Replace the last line with:
event.value="*"+SSN+PayGroup+"MF01"+last.substr(0,4)+"*";

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