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The length of the string is 22, but it must be less than or equal to 20 characters. Value: @DS-2CD2132F-IW(4MM)

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Hi I am stuck in an issue, I am trying to apply SetFilter function on the item record to search this item with name: DS-2CD2132F-IW(4MM).
When i apply filter on it, the text looks like @*DS-2CD2132F-IW(4MM)*. The setfilter function throws exception because the length of No. field in item table is Code[20] and the search text length become 22.

The code is here.

searchTxt := StrSubstNo('@*%1*', itemNo);
itemRec.SetFilter("No.",'%1', searchTxt);

if itemRec.FindSet() then begin
UnitPrice := itemRec."Unit Price";
end

I get this exception: The length of the string is 22, but it must be less than or equal to 20 characters. Value: @*DS-2CD2132F-IW(4MM)*

I am interested to apply the filter whatever the length of the field in table is.

How can i solve this issue to filter the record?

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Mohana Yadav 61,204 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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You have to reduce the ItemNo filter value to 18 in that case as there will be no other items even if you set *DS-2CD2132F-IW(4MM)*

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Hi thank you for your response. But it might be the scenario when there is another item with the same name but it might be possible the last two characters of the item name are change in this this logic fails. i already tried it but it didn't work with another item whose last two characters were just different.

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You can try as per below just put "*" where you seems that character might be different

@*DS-2CD2132F-IW(4*MM*)*

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No i cannot do like this because there are more than 25000 products and all can have same character to some specific length lets say 5 products can have 15 characters same and then last 5 characters can be different. In other case the product can have 17 characters same and 3 characters can be different in start or last.

So i want it to be generic.

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then you have to check itemno string length first and if it is 20 then apply the filter as it is.

If less than 18 then apply the @*%1* etc.

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Yes i tried it but it was not of my use case. cannot i make it waork like if we use the builtin filter option from the page?

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Manthan Thesiya 59 on at

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Hello..

it bit strange that you are getting error for Special character '('.

But i tried with below code:

searchTxt: Text;

begin

searchTxt := StrSubstNo('@*%1*', 'DS-2CD2132F-IW-14MM'); // instead of DS-2CD2132F-IW(4MM)

Rec.SetFilter(Rec."No.", searchTxt);

End;

And its totally working fine in my system. (Currently using version Business central 21.3)

First of all as per my suggestion remove Special characters in Item name. because it will cause error in future Also.

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Thank you for your response. No my problem is still there i cannot remove the special characters from the text. That's why it is still tricky to handle this scenario.

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DAnny3211 11,417 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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hi

try this

searchTxt := STRSUBSTNO('*%1*', itemNo);

Customer.SETFILTER("No.",'@%1', searchTxt);

check my answer if it helped you, thanks

DAniele

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