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Left(s1, n1) - help!

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2011-11-22 18:56:46
newuser123
Registered: Nov 20 2011
Posts: 2
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Thanks for any advice in advance!
 
I'm very very new to programming and am trying to create a form...
 
My TextField1 is First Name and my TextField2 is Surname, I would like to use the calculate functinon to generate the employee email in a hidden field
   
form1.#subform[0].TextField6::calculate - (FormCalc, client)
Left(TextField1, 1) + TextField2
 
What am I doing wrong???
 
The output is "0"

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
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2011-11-22 22:46:27
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radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
Accepted Answer
Hi

to combine several strings into on you have to use the Concat function.

This script will combine 3 strings (1st letter of TextField1, the whole value of TextField2 and the string "@company.org").
$ = Concat(Left(TextField1, 1), TextField2, "@company.org")

radzmar
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2011-11-23 14:07:36
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newuser123
Registered: Nov 20 2011
Posts: 2
radzmar wrote:
Hito combine several strings into on you have to use the Concat function.

This script will combine 3 strings (1st letter of TextField1, the whole value of TextField2 and the string "@company.org").
$ = Concat(Left(TextField1, 1), TextField2, "@company.org")
Thank you
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