Thanks for everybody's help. I figured it was something along the lines of "anchoring" as you all explained, but I didn't even know enough about regex to know it was called anchoring to look up how I could do it simply.
-------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning ....-----Original Message----- ....From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ....Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 11:05 AM ....To: CF-Talk ....Subject: Re: Tighten up this logic. .... ....Ian Skinner wrote: ....> Would somebody (or several somebody's) mind tighting up this logic. ....> ....> <!--- Else If: the 1st field of the record is between 6 and 12 ....characters long, begins with 1 or 2 letters and ends with 5 to 11 digits, ....then the value is an Eye readable Codabar format. ---> ....> ....> <cfelseif len(trim(recAry[1])) GTE 6 AND len(trim(recAry[1])) LTE 12 ....AND refind("[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{5,11}",Ucase(trim(recAry[1])))> .... ....<cfelseif len(trim(recAry[1])) LTE 12 AND ....refind("^[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{5,11}$",Ucase(trim(recAry[1])))> .... ....Jochem .... .... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195455 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
