I do want to delete from the commentfield in the log form a lot of enteries like this „WAB:SZ 29| WPX:G4|“. Where the WAB square is different from one form to another and also the WPX. And I would like to do this without deleting anything else from the comment field. Is this at all possible?
Your help would be highly apprisiated.
73 Billi TF5B
I am sorry to post this in this part of the forum but for some reason the „Bulk data changes and database commands“ part of this forum is closed to me.

Hello Peter and thank you for your reply.
I will try to explain this a bit better but english is not my first language so ber with me there.
I know that the data should be in userfields and that is where it is now but it is also in the commentfield from a long time ago and that is what I want to delete.
I have been using LOGIc since it was a DOS software and have put warius info in the commentfield which now can be put in to userfields.
What I would like to do is to delete all the WAB squares from the comment field in all the qso´s in my log without delete anything else from the commentfield not just SZ 29 and the same goes for WPX this info is now in userfields.
There is no problem to filter those QSO´s from the log With the following "Field name "Comment" Operator "$"(contains)Value "WAB"" this will filter out all qso´s with the letters WAB in the comment field an gives me abt 763 qso´s and the WPX filter gives my abt 21000 qso´s.
I do hope that this explains my intensions a bit.

73 Billi TF5B

G'Day again Billi,

I ran some tests.

Make a backup before you try this.

A little test first, to make sure it can work. Locate a QSO that has a COMMENT that contains the data you want to remove. Note the call sign.

Open Tools, Advanced, Database commands ...

use log
browse for "call"$log.call

... where "call" is the call you noted above. You should see the QSO displayed. If there is more than one, just move up and down to select the one with the data in the comment field.

Close that window and type ...

? tag_edit(log.COMMENT,"WAB:","")

... and that should print the comment without the WAB tag.

If that did not work, post a reply here with the line that was printed.

If that did work, open Database Files, Mass Change, Replace field contents

Select COMMENT in the "Replace this feid"
Enter 'tag_edit(COMMENT,"WAB:","")' in the "with" panel

In the "Replace only" panel enter "WAB:"$COMMENT".

Click the "count" button to check that you have filtered the correct number of QSOs.

If you think all is OK, Click OK - and the WAB: tag should be removed from the COMMENT field of all the selected QSOs.

Repeat the process for each tag you want to remove from the COMMENT field. Or, look at my next post to see how to do more than one tag at a time.

Peter VK4IU

Hi Peter.
This did the trick.

It did find all the WAB enteries but did not delete abt 63 of them or so.
I did try warius versions of the filter and the entries where found but not deleted so I deleted them by hand.

The WPX enteries was found and deleted all 20.999 of them in one go.
The reason for this difference between WAB and WPX might be that the WPX entri was always the same prefix WPX: but WAB was not always the same like WAB: or WAB- or WAB and WAB and a space.

I would like to thank you for all your help with this and I have learned a bit more abt LOGic.

By the way I am using LOGIc 9 the latest version.

73 from Akureyri Iceland Billi TF5B