Re: Validate client name

Actually you can, bit complicated any way, you can use lookup operation with array or scan with the string variable.



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-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:07:09
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Validate client name


There should be no need to use an array with %scan, right? If you want
all the positions reported, you have to use SCAN opcode and have an
array in the result variable. With %scan you do a loop with start
position set to 1 more than last found position.

Vern

Chamara Withanachchi wrote:

%scan will do the thing you have to scan one character by character. Put the name to an array (1 char array and no of elements should be equal to total length of the name field)



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-----Original Message-----
From: David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:35:56
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Validate client name

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Chamara

Do not accept special characters such as .,@!/:;"+-_? Etc...

How do you do the checking?

I've been asked by the user to eliminate similar characters. However, I suspect that his list of characters is not exhaustif. I would put these characters in a string, then use %XLATE to see if the name entered contained one of these characters.
Although I think we've now limited our users to using only capital letters AtoZ plus spaces in between, so maybe it'd be easier to control what can be used instead of what can't. But then %XLATE wouldn't work, would it?

Anyway of indicating which character is the one that can't be used?

Check for special names such as tintin,

No can do. That would discriminate against Mr Tintin.