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I've created a simple query to look up customers by Tax ID. Since the users don't always insert the hyphens in the right place, I strip out the hyphens using the REPLACE function. But the query throws a Data Type Mismatch error (see example). I've tried converting the stripped TIN with CSTR and CDBL, but to no avail.
Anybody have any ideas?
Ah, I figured it out...
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What is the datatype of TIN in your table? If it is a long integer, try Clng(Replace(...))
-Bruce
It's a string. It couldn't be numeric with hyphens in it.
Oh, I see now....it looks like Owner_TIN has nulls for one or more records.
If you were not storing hyphens in Owner_TIN you could search them using
select * from Owner where Owner_TIN = replace([Search for TIN],"-","")
regardless of the null values.
Since you are storing hyphens which you need to get rid of first and you have nulls in Owner_TIN you would need to use
select * from Owner where replace(nz(Owner_TIN,""),"-","") = replace([Search for TIN],"-","")
or possibly
select * from Owner where Owner_TIN is not null and replace(Owner_TIN,"-","") = replace([Search for TIN],"-","")
-Bruce