RE: Checking for replication of characters in a field

If they don't know the contact now and are not willing to find out to
enter the info, what is to stop them from entering some made up name
(e.g. Bill Logan) for every entry? This sounds like a good candidate for
something to fix in a process rather then in a program.

Chris

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric A. Wolf
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:32 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Checking for replication of characters in a field

To the list,
I am trying to create a utility to prevent users from entering
insignificant
data in a field.  For example, if the user is required to enter a
Contact
Name (which cannot be verified against any table), I can check for
blanks
and issue an error.  However, if the enter a ".", "X" or all "*", an
error
will not be issue. Has anyone written something like this (or similar)
to
handle this?

I could write a routine to go through every character on the keyboard to
test  IF fieldname = *all'x' but what about just checking for three
AAA's or
999 in a 20 character field?

TIA...
Eric Wolf