Re: RegEx Question

["Buzz Fenner" <bfenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, 11:33:04, Scott Klement wrote:

> Personally, I wouldn't want to force the user to type everything 
> right-aligned.  Why make the user do this when it's just as easy to have 
> your program adjust it to the right?
>
> Do something like this:
>
>   evalr  BankAcct = %triml(BankAcct)
>
> As for checking that it consists only of digits, I'd use the %CHECK BIF 
> to keep things simple.
>
>     if %check('0123456789': %trim(BankAcct)) > 0;
>        // bad data in BankAcct
>     endif;

> That's my thought, anyway.

Actually, the data is being right-aligned as the user exits the field; I was
more or less concerned with an accidental space being keyed at the end of
the digits. 

And yes, it's a bit of overkill - but it's so elegant!

I may go for the %BIF instead since regex scares the bejesus out of my boss.

Thanks!