https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/41.aspxIf you're not sure where to ask your question, ask it here. If necessary, our moderators will make sure it gets classified in the correct board.enCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/117641.aspxTue, 14 Nov 2017 15:51:18 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:117641sclark550https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/117641.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&PostID=117641that got it. thanks.https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/117639.aspxTue, 14 Nov 2017 15:22:27 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:117639Hilary Stoupa0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/117639.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&PostID=117639You just want the username portion of the string? jdoe? That would be substring-after(txtField, "\") because you only have one "\" in the string.....https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/117638.aspxTue, 14 Nov 2017 12:38:09 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:117638sclark550https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/117638.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&PostID=117638I am new to InfoPath so if did not ask the question correctly I apologize. I have text text field that has the following text in it "i:o#.w|nsna\jdoe". I believe this field has the user name in it, domain\username. I want to take the user name of jdoe and put it in another text field. I have setup a rule that has a condition "txtField contains "nsna\", a rule type of Action set a field's value txtField2 = concat(substring-before(txtField,"nsna\"), substring-after(txtField, "nsna\")) but it does work. Can anyone help? Thanks.