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David

An alternative to Peter's suggestion would be, if you have a spare 500MB of
disk space, to create a single reference file with every possible catalogue
number in. You could then use SQL to pull out records from the reference
file that don't have a match in your catalogue file.

It's not neat by any standards though...

Hope it helps

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of David Foxwell
Sent: 03 October 2007 10:31
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Extraction problem

Hi,

I have a file with catalogue numbers like this : AA00001 to ZZ99999.

Is there a neat way to extract all the numbers available ( not being used )
for a given prefix ?

eg, the list of numbers available between PE00020 and PF99290, list of
numbers with prefix AZ.

Thanks

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