Using part of a field as a label

[Vladislav Kurnosov]

Dear David:

Try to use FoxPro (I use DOS version). All this may be done
with a few statements like REPLACE ALL etc.


Best regards,
Vladislav Kurnosov
mailto:vkurnosov at softech.ru

Wednesday, November 22, 2000, 4:58:24 AM, you wrote:
> I am trying to label Tiger-derived street data (ESRI Streetmap 2000) and
> include highway shields for Interstates and other major highways using
> symbols and annotation layers.  My problem is that the name
> field in the Tiger database for interstates is characterized as "I-5" or
> "Hwy 101" when the label on the map I would like to include is only "5" or
> "101".  Has anyone ever tried to add hwy shields to Tiger data using this
> field and if so is there a good way to do this other than manually adding
> a new attribute containing only the numbered portion of the name?  I am
> using the ENTIRE US as my domain so editing these large shapefiles (one
> for each state!) is very time consuming, especially since shapefiles
> don't take kindly to editing their associated dbf file outside ARCVIEW.

> David