topic Re: How to extract Middle, Left, or Right characters in Calculate Field tool in ArcGIS Pro Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-extract-middle-left-or-right-characters-in/m-p/611058#M27205 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Have you checked out the <A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/calculate-field-examples.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_121D1E3E27DC4C84B9C060C9CA26060F">Code samples -- Strings </A>in the Field Calculator examples for ArcGIS Pro?</P><P></P><P>I encourage you to learn a bit of Python, which is what parser ArcGIS Pro is using.&nbsp; In Python, strings are sequences that can be indexed, sliced, and much more.&nbsp; In your case, the second character in a three character string is <SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">!string_field![1]</SPAN> .</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:29:03 GMT JoshuaBixby 2016-07-06T18:29:03Z How to extract Middle, Left, or Right characters in Calculate Field tool https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-extract-middle-left-or-right-characters-in/m-p/611057#M27204 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What are the commands that replace the MID, LEFT, or RIGHT functions? For example, I need to extract the 2nd character from a 3 character string field named MOO, and populate the field COW with that value. Simple, I am sure, but ...?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:19:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-extract-middle-left-or-right-characters-in/m-p/611057#M27204 BrianCohen 2016-07-06T18:19:30Z Re: How to extract Middle, Left, or Right characters in Calculate Field tool https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-extract-middle-left-or-right-characters-in/m-p/611058#M27205 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Have you checked out the <A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/calculate-field-examples.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_121D1E3E27DC4C84B9C060C9CA26060F">Code samples -- Strings </A>in the Field Calculator examples for ArcGIS Pro?</P><P></P><P>I encourage you to learn a bit of Python, which is what parser ArcGIS Pro is using.&nbsp; In Python, strings are sequences that can be indexed, sliced, and much more.&nbsp; In your case, the second character in a three character string is <SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">!string_field![1]</SPAN> .</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:29:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-extract-middle-left-or-right-characters-in/m-p/611058#M27205 JoshuaBixby 2016-07-06T18:29:03Z