Re: easiest way to check for a non-alphanumeric character?

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2000

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 35394
interpreted = N
texte = At 2:21 PM 7/29/00, John Butler wrote:>*****>>Do I need more?>I.e. is this enough to check for any possible non-alphanumeric char?No. You're not checking for space _ , = + { } ' * blah blah blah. And my experience with the check every bad value approach is that it is time consuming, produces ugly code, and I invariably miss some character or another.There are a couple of ways to accomplish what you want.One way is to create a conversion database which converts a-z, A-Z and 0-1 to nothing. Then set a temporary text variable to the value of the form variable. Pass the temp variable through the conversion db above which would leave everything in the string except alphanumerics. Then if the size of the temp variable is not zero, they made and input error.___Joe____________________________________________________Joseph D'Andrea JoeDan@West21.comWEST21.com Internet services for the 21st Century http://www.west21.com/_________________________________________________-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: easiest way to check for a non-alphanumeric character? (John Butler 2000)
Re: easiest way to check for a non-alphanumeric character? (Joseph D'Andrea 2000)
easiest way to check for a non-alphanumeric character? (John Butler 2000)

At 2:21 PM 7/29/00, John Butler wrote:>*****>>Do I need more?>I.e. is this enough to check for any possible non-alphanumeric char?No. You're not checking for space _ , = + { } ' * blah blah blah. And my experience with the check every bad value approach is that it is time consuming, produces ugly code, and I invariably miss some character or another.There are a couple of ways to accomplish what you want.One way is to create a conversion database which converts a-z, A-Z and 0-1 to nothing. Then set a temporary text variable to the value of the form variable. Pass the temp variable through the conversion db above which would leave everything in the string except alphanumerics. Then if the size of the temp variable is not zero, they made and input error.___Joe____________________________________________________Joseph D'Andrea JoeDan@West21.comWEST21.com Internet services for the 21st Century http://www.west21.com/_________________________________________________-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Joseph D'Andrea

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