Re: How to detect a letter?

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> On Dec 9, 2015, at 10:53 AM, "Koester, Michael" <mkoester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm guessing that someone has already had to do this:
> I need to validate that a string contains a letter (A-Z or a-z) as part of an edit routine for valid email passwords.   
>
> I could brute-force this with for-loops scanning for each letter, but I suspect there is a more elegant solution.  Ideas? Preferred solution would be RPG and/or SQL supported by v7.1.
>
> (Hoped to find a previous discussion of this in the archives, but my creativity failed me for getting the right search words.)
> Many thanks.
>
> Michael Koester
> Programmer/Analyst
> DataEast - Granite State Communications
>
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