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copied!<p>I am trying to update a text field. Moving data to another column and truncate because it is too long.</p> <p>The update statement looks like this. (Edited)</p> <pre><code>UPDATE Feuil1 SET [Occupant 2] = SWITCH ( [Occupant 2] IS NOT NULL, [Occupant 3], (LEN([Occupant 1]) - LEN(REPLACE([Occupant 1], ' ', '')) = 3), mid([Occupant 1],InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," "),30), (LEN([Occupant 1]) - LEN(REPLACE([Occupant 1], ' ', '')) = 4), mid([Occupant 1],InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," "),30), (LEN([Occupant 1]) - LEN(REPLACE([Occupant 1], ' ', '')) = 5), mid([Occupant 1],InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," "),30), (LEN([Occupant 1]) - LEN(REPLACE([Occupant 1], ' ', '')) = 6), mid([Occupant 1],InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," "),30), (LEN([Occupant 1]) - LEN(REPLACE([Occupant 1], ' ', '')) = 7), mid([Occupant 1],InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," "),30), (LEN([Occupant 1]) - LEN(REPLACE([Occupant 1], ' ', '')) = 2), '', (LEN([Occupant 1]) - LEN(REPLACE([Occupant 1], ' ', '')) = 1), '', [Occupant 1] LIKE '* & *', mid([Occupant 1],InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," "),30), [Occupant 1] LIKE '* ET *', mid([Occupant 1],InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," "),30), (LEN([Occupant 1]) - LEN(REPLACE([Occupant 1], ' ', '')) = 0), '' ), [Occupant 1] = SWITCH ( (LEN([Occupant 1]) - LEN(REPLACE([Occupant 1], ' ', '')) = 3), mid([Occupant 1],1,InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," ")), (LEN([Occupant 1]) - LEN(REPLACE([Occupant 1], ' ', '')) = 4), mid([Occupant 1],1,InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," ")), [Occupant 1] LIKE '* & *', (replace([Occupant 1], ' & ' & mid([Occupant 1],InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," ")),InStr(InStr(2,[Occupant 1]," ")), '')), [Occupant 1] LIKE '* ET *', (replace([Occupant 1], ' & ' & mid([Occupant 1],InStr(InStr(1,[Occupant 1]," ")+1,[Occupant 1]," ")),InStr(InStr(2,[Occupant 1]," ")), '')) ) WHERE [Occupant 1] IS NOT NULL </code></pre> <p>I always get conversion type error but I don't know why. I am updating a text field with it's own modified data. All the columns involved are text.</p> <p>I've tried to use Val(), Cstr() functions, same result.</p> <p>Additionnal informations: Some data seems to be processed, but I can't find why.</p> <p>Any clues?</p>

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