RE: Find all occurences of alpha characters in a string

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 15:10, Art Tostaine, Jr. wrote:
> Carsten:
>
> Thanks, but I forgot to mention that this is V4R5.  I don't see %Check there.
>
Hi Art

I was going to post a response but Carsten beat me to it - much more
elegant too. Mind you, we're still on V4R4 so lots of goodies missing
there :) The way I'd tackle it is to create a pattern map that can be
used for the separation. Use XLATE to get a result field where all
numbers go to 9's and all alphas to A's. Then run a loop like Carsten's
substringing out each byte from the XLATEed value and moving the
matching byte from the original depending on it being A or 9. I've used
this technique for extracting UK postcodes from addresses and it seems
to work okay.

Regards, Martin
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