Re: Special characters

Raul,

I think the first solution will always return zero unless the actual 
string ":;,.*' is found in the field.

Of course, I've been known to be wrong before.

HTH,

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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Re: Special characters






To find them:  %scan(':;,.*': field)   This will return zero if not 
found, where it is the first one otherwise.
To find anything other than valid: %check('0123456...': field)  Gives 
zero if all valid,

steema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>is there a simple way to check a field for characters as '#', ':', '.',
>etc... rather than asking on each one?
> 
>