Re: Numbers from Sentence

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 47997
interpreted = N
texte = At 3:03 PM -0800 2/21/03, World Wide Art wrote: >How would I get the numbers from a sentence. i.e. If I had: > >This is the sentence with 1,234 used somewhere in it. > >How would I get: > >1,234Good problem... If you knew that there would only be one number in the sentence, then you could use a convertchars. Use a special database the converts everything /but/ 0-9 to null. What you're left with would a number. But this would break if your sentence was There are 1 or 2 things to say.~joe ------------------------------------------------------------- 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://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Numbers from Sentence (Dan Strong 2003)
  2. Re: Numbers from Sentence (World Wide Art 2003)
  3. Re: Numbers from Sentence (Joe D'Andrea 2003)
  4. Re: Numbers from Sentence (Rob Marquardt 2003)
  5. Re: Numbers from Sentence (Dan Strong 2003)
  6. Numbers from Sentence (World Wide Art 2003)
At 3:03 PM -0800 2/21/03, World Wide Art wrote: >How would I get the numbers from a sentence. i.e. If I had: > >This is the sentence with 1,234 used somewhere in it. > >How would I get: > >1,234Good problem... If you knew that there would only be one number in the sentence, then you could use a convertchars. Use a special database the converts everything /but/ 0-9 to null. What you're left with would a number. But this would break if your sentence was There are 1 or 2 things to say.~joe ------------------------------------------------------------- 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://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Joe D'Andrea

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