I'm using developer's Studio and I used the Expression Builder to do a selection criteria and choose the Matches Pattern option.

I'm trying to find a data in the column that is in this format

999-999999-99

I've tried putting it in as 9's and as #'s. I can't seem to get it to find anything.

I also tried the like statement with the same results.

I can't find anywhere that documents what syntax it needs for the pattern.

LIKE '___-_____-__' should work _ is wildcard single char in SQL.

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LIKE '___-_____-__'

That would give me all of the ones with numerics and alphas. I'm only wanting the one's with alphas

99-999999-99 is what I want, not anything like
aa-999aaa-99 etc.

Doh! yes...

You could use CHKFMT function but this would require testing on wf server rather than DBMS.

WHERE EDIT(FIELD,'9') GE '0' AND EDIT(FIELD,'9') LE '9' AND EDIT(FIELD,'$9') GE '0' AND EDIT(FIELD,'$9') LE '9' AND ...
Will translate to server substrs but is extremely cumbersome

Best would be the incorrect where clause to speed up things on the server + CHKFMT.

Can anyone think of anything neater than this?

This message has been edited. Last edited by: hammo1j,

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That would give me all of the ones with numerics and alphas. I'm only wanting the one's with alphas

99-999999-99 is what I want, not anything like
aa-999aaa-99 etc.

From your examples it appears you want the numeric and NOT the alphas.

This may do the trick:

WHERE FLD1 LIKE '%%-%%%%%%-%%' AND FLD1 FROM '00-000000-00' TO '99-999999-99'

This might be enough:

WHERE FLD1 FROM '00-000000-00' TO '99-999999-99'

Fran

Unfortunately 0A will pass the FROM test.

Think its a good idea tho to use this test with the earlier mask to limit returned from dbms.

WHERE FLD1 FROM '0' TO '9'

Then for strictness sake you will need CHKFMT to weed out the ones that get through.