Re: Validate client name

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There should be no need to use an array with %scan, right? If you want 
all the positions reported, you have to use SCAN opcode and have an 
array in the result variable. With %scan you do a loop with start 
position set to 1 more than last found position.

Vern

Chamara Withanachchi wrote:
> %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.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:35:56 
> To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Validate client name
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> > [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Chamara
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> > Do not accept special characters such as .,@!/:;"+-_? Etc...
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> How do you do the checking?
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> 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?
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> Anyway of indicating which character is the one that can't be used?
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> > Check for special names such as tintin,
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> No can do. That would discriminate against Mr Tintin.
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