Francis Coppage wrote:
> Gentlemen .
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> I have records that contains part numbers and other data.
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> Multiple records may contain the same part number
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> . (don't worry, other fields make the record unique J .)
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> PartNumber C(24)
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> 12A456789-123
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> 12A456789-123?
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> 12A456789-?123
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> 12A456789?123
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> 12A456789-0123
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> 12A456789-?2123
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> 12A456789-?4123?
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> 12A456789-2123?
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> 12A456789-?1123
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> The question marks can be any ALPHA character (a-Z), if any.
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> The user enters the part number in a form.
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> I need to "FILTER" out the ALPHA for a valid match as a
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> valid entry need not contain the (?) ALPHA character:
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> i.e. 12A456789-123 is the same as 12A456789-123A
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> i.e. 12A456789-123 is the same as 12A456789-A123
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> SCANing or DO WHILEing .
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> Sure, I can! Parsing the value for each record . all half million of them.
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> That's what was done in the past.
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> I'm considered creating a cursor with just the part numbers
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> containing the first nine characters and then parsing that table.
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> That's where I'm at currently!!
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> Are there any options that could be done with a single SQL Select
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> that I've missed. (READ: Really feeling stupid!)
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> Thanks for anything!
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> Best,
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> Francis I. Coppage, Jr.
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I think you overlooked ChrTran().
lookFor = '12A456789-123'
select * ;
into cursor tableParsed ;
from yourTable ;
where chrtran(PartNumber,
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', '') = lookFor
HTH
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