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    adding prefix to numbers

    Hello,

    I work in electonic manufacturing and have a customer that supplys me with there build of materals. I want to add our prefix numbers to there part numbers ex: all caps "C" ref des get 022 added to the front of them. Any ideas on how to do this fast and easy.

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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    Can you give examples of before and after...
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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    can you post an example of the number you want to add a prefix of "022" to?

    EDIT: whoops, I was too slow
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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    534904P1 C1-C4, C7-C10, C15, C16, C18-C23, C25, C26, C51, C52, C56-C62, C64-C70, C75-C86 CAP S X5R 0.1UF 25DC 10% 63

    539922P1 Q2, Q3 ALT XSTR R MFN 100V 10.0A 185 64


    022534904P1 C1-C4, C7-C10, C15, C16, C18-C23, C25, C26, C51, C52, C56-C62, C64-C70, C75-C86 CAP S X5R 0.1UF 25DC 10% 63

    024539922P1 Q2, Q3 ALT XSTR R MFN 100V 10.0A 185 64

    hope this helps

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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    I don't understand that example.

    Are those strings in one cell?

    What decides if 0225 or 0245 get added to the prefix or any others?

    Please give direction.

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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    They are in different cells Part number in one Ref in another and so on. Resisters get a 020 prefix, caps get a 022 ,IC Diodes get 024, connectors get 026 and so on down the line.

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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    And how do we know what's a
    Resisters get a 020 prefix, caps get a 022 ,IC Diodes get 024, connectors get 026
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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    I have attached one before and after. hope this helps
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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    Can you use VBA (If/ElseIF/Then, or maybe Select/Case/Loop) type of code to do this since there are alot of conditions to consider when assigning the prefixes?

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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    They had some kind of VB program but it got lost I am not very good at programming

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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    There are duplictes in your code prefixes ALT appears three times, I have assumed the first in the list to be correct.
    Some items on the part description list have no prefix allocated these show as #N/A in Column G on sheet "Cost_BOM_417981G1_Prod" where I have put this formula
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    CodeList & Component are two dynamic named lists I have put in a new sheet "Lookups"
    Add and correct the prefixes and codes in this sheet columns D & E, the rest is just to show you the anomalies and should be deleted.

    Hope this helps.
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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    Thanks Marcol,


    After looking in box after box here I found the program that they used before I started here. I dont have the source code to modify it. I have attached it here to show you what they are looking for. I only need the add avcom PN header to work. Any help will be thankful.
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    Re: adding prefix to numbers

    That is an .exe file what do you expect to get from that? What language is it written in?

    More than likely it will be written in C, maybe VB at a push, this is not the forum for that type of problem.

    Why don't you find a list of your prefixes and what they apply to, it's easy to add to the sheet I gave you, if you do that then we might get somewhere.

    Sorry mate.
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