RE: having to find an inv. # in a comment field :(

Why not just scan for a number only, make sure next two digits are also 
numbers, then scan prior to that position for a blank (to get the start 
position) and after those three numbers for a blank (to get the end pos) 
then you have the full len of the field and take it out altogether, then 
scan it again in case there is a second one..... seems easier enough and 
you don't have to worry about spelling....

Ron Power
Programmer
Information Services
City Of St. John's, NL
P.O. Box 908
St. John's, NL
A1C 5M2
709-576-8132
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http://www.stjohns.ca/
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Ouchie...

Unless there is some type of uniform standard in the text entries there
is no way to ensure accuracy programmatically period.  Is there any way
you can convince them to standardize the way they key the data?  Or
better yet append an invoice number field to the end of the record?? 


Thanks,
Tommy Holden


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Subject: **SPAM** having to find an inv. # in a comment field :(

Well this is the picture. Don't ask why, but we get some info
from abroad. They put invoice numbers in a comment field. The comment
field can have normal comment info (not invoice number) but when there
is
the invoice there, I need to put this in some other work file.

The len. of this comment field is 40.

It is not uniform. The ways it is there are:

INVOICE# XKC03J143L
INVOICE # XTG05K023L
INVOICE #   XSC06A016L
INV# XKC03G091L
INV. XTC05L053L
INV 5400960
INVOICES XTC05F008L AND XTC05F012L (in this case, I want to write 2
records)
INVOICE XTC05F009L
INVOICE #'S 2107071, 2107073 & 2107079
INVOICE #'S XSC04H008L & XTC04H021L

IN addition, there are several spelling mistakes on the word Invoice,
but
these are not my concern ( I was thinking how to take the file, run it
in
Microsoft spell check, perhaps someone has done this?).

Any thoughts on the coding would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve

INVOICES SHIPPED AFTER COST CHANGE (an example of a real comment)