... tokenize! verify!verify... No pipe on my phone. One verify for alphas, one for numerics. Maybe a bit more detail would help.
On Nov 2, 2017 1:01 PM, "Glenn Knickerbocker" <[email protected]> wrote: > To pick out PTF numbers from freeform text, I'm splitting on anything > that's not alphanumeric and then looking for U as the first character, > etc. I just had a problem where somebody accidentally ran the APAR and > PTF numbers together into PI86281UI51100, so I didn't find the PTF > number. My code *should* be short-lived, and I could SPLIT BEFORE ANYOF > 'OPU' to handle our current APAR and PTF prefixes, but we all know how > many decades later we fall into those traps. Am I overlooking some > simple way (short of resorting to PATTERN) to split before a letter that > follows a number? > > ¬R >
