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Tomsweb
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I have a field called PCDOCNUM/A6.
It contains values like '00369' and
'85323' as well as 'ALL' or 'WILSON'.

I cannot find a sample, nor remember how I would accept only those values that are
numeric across the entire string.

How could this be done without coding a very large WHERE statement? Frowner

Thanks!

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GinnyJakes
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Tom,

I don't know what release of 7.6 you are running but there is a new function called PATTERN in 7.6.5 (pg. 76 of the SofNF for 765) which might be helpful.


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susannah
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SOOOOOOO cool! thanks Ginny



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No need to wait for 765

CHKFMT function has been there for ever (almost)
 
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GamP
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But, if you have a leading or trailing space in your alpha field that is otherwise totally numeric, CHKFMT returns a 1 - stating it is not numeric - which is in this case not correct.
You could solve that by using a combination of EDIT and CHKFMT. If the result of the EDIT is 0 and the result of CHKFMT is also 0 then it is definitely not a numeric contents.
The following example show that:
FILEDEF MFD DISK mfd1.mas
-RUN
-WRITE MFD FILENAME=MFD1, SUFFIX=FIX, $
-WRITE MFD SEGNAME=MFD1, $
-WRITE MFD FIELDNAME=COL1 , FORMAT=A6   , ACTUAL=A6, $

FILEDEF MFD1 DISK mfd1.ftm
-RUN
-WRITE MFD1 123456
-WRITE MFD1 all
-WRITE MFD1   9900
-WRITE MFD1 wilson
-WRITE MFD1 000000
-WRITE MFD1   44
-WRITE MFD1 this

TABLE FILE mfd1
PRINT COL1
      COMPUTE COL2/I6 = EDIT(COL1);
      COMPUTE COL3/I6 = CHKFMT(6, COL1, '999999', COL3)
END

Hope this helps ...


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Tomsweb
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Thanks all for your replies. Nice Thread

Ginny,

I tried the PATTERN function and it worked like a jewel! Good One

Thanks,
Tom


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Prarie
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Tom will you edit your Subject line and put [SOLVED]?

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Doug
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Cross reference to : http://forums.informationbuild...1057331/m/7627090276

I added that URL just to make it easy for the next time anyone needs this.
 
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