I've recommended this shareware tool here before. It's called
RegExBuddy. The cost is nominal. In addition to a very useful IDE for
testing out RegEx expressions, it comes with a nice library. (And
extensive help, etc.)
Here's the expression to match social security numbers from the library
that comes with it -
\b[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{4}\b
Craig Boyd (anyone heard from Craig lately?) wrote a VFP FLL that
implements regex and works very nicely for something like this.
john harvey wrote:
> I have been given a task to remove social security and driver's license
> numbers, as well as convert exact addresses to 100 block of whatever that is
> contained in a free form narrative. These narratives are police reports that
> are being downloaded by the media in the Memphis area. The MPD doesn't want
> to send these reports with the above information, but to obfuscate that
> portion of the narratives. I've already gotten the code working on the
> addresses, but was thinking maybe regular expressions would work well with
> detecting and converting the ssn to XXX-XX-XXXXX and maybe even the driver's
> license numbers the same way. One small problem is that I have never used
> them. Anyone gotz any code that might help on this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> John Harvey
> Memphis Police Dept
> Technical Consultant
>
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