RE: Finding non-alphanumeric characters using SQL

Do you really want the UPPER() statement?
In your email, you said "field does not have a space, a number, or an
uppercase letter in it."
UPPER will convert the field to uppercase before it does the translation
so lower case values will not be captured.

SELECT cnmacc
FROM arstageeo/arcnm
WHERE TRANSLATE(cnmacc,' ','0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
<> ' '

Should work if you also want to see lower case letter values.


John Arnold
(301) 354-2939


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Francis Lapeyre
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:55 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Finding non-alphanumeric characters using SQL

Elvis,

That works like a charm! Thanks!

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Elvis Budimlic <
ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think you're best off TRANSLATing all valid characters to blanks and

then comparing if field is all blanks or not. If not, you've hit upon

a field with funny data. Here's an example:

SELECT cnmacc
FROM arstageeo/arcnm
WHERE TRANSLATE(UPPER(cnmacc),'

','0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')

<> ' '

Something like that ought to work.

HTH, Elvis

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Finding non-alphanumeric characters using SQL

List,

I'm scratching my head here. I'm trying to find all intances where a
particular field does not have a space, a number, or an uppercase
letter in it.

Using STRSQL, this does not work:


SELECT cnmacc FROM arstageeo/arcnm WHERE cnmacc not like('%
0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ%')

Niether does this:

SELECT cnmacc FROM arstageeo/arcnm WHERE trim(cnmacc) not in('%1%')
and
trim(cnmacc) not in('%2%') and trim(cnmacc) not in('%3%') and
trim(cnmacc) not in('%4%') and trim(cnmacc) not in('%5%') and
trim(cnmacc) not
in('%6%')
and trim(cnmacc) not in('%7%') and trim(cnmacc) not in('%8%') and
trim(cnmacc) not in('%9%') and trim(cnmacc) not in('%0%') and
trim(cnmacc) not in('%A%') and trim(cnmacc) not in('%B%') and
trim(cnmacc) not
in('%C%')
and

(continuing the alpahbet) ...

trim(cnmacc) not in('%Z%')

This is a one-shot deal. We want to identify accounts in CNMACC (a
10-byte fixed-length character field) which were entered with "funny"

characters.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.


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