Re: Validate client name

[johnking@xxxxxxx]

Regex? Lots of examples online. http://systeminetwork.com/archivesearch/article/regex

JK

On Mon 09/06/22 09:41 , 'Chamara Withanachchi'  sent:
> %scan will do the thing you have to scan one character by character. Put
> the name to an array (1 char array and no of elements should be equal to
> total length of the name field) 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David FOXWELL David
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> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:35:56 
> To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System irpg400-
> l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>Subject: RE: Validate client name
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> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > [rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Chamara
>
> > Do not accept special characters such as .,@!/:;"+-_?
> Etc...
> How do you do the checking?
>
> I've been asked by the user to eliminate similar characters. However, I
> suspect that his list of characters is not exhaustif. I would put these
> characters in a string, then use %XLATE to see if the name entered
> contained one of these characters.Although I think we've now limited our users
to using only capital letters
> AtoZ plus spaces in between, so maybe it'd be easier to control what can be
> used instead of what can't. But then %XLATE wouldn't work, would it?
> Anyway of indicating which character is the one that can't be used?
>
>
> > Check for special names such as tintin,
>
> No can do. That would discriminate against Mr Tintin.


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