>>I have a character field zip c(5) containing zipcodes. I need to set a filter to select the bad entries which contain alpha characters. This is done in Access code using the LIKE function (not like('#####'), but VFP handles LIKE differently. This would also seem to be a simple matter but I can't seem to find the answer. I could find a bad entry by parsing the values but that doesn't serve my need to set a filter.
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>>Any thoughts?
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>What about
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>? transform(val(ZipCode)) == ZipCode && Valid Zip Code Assuming all 5 digits are always present

Hugo -
Thanks for your idea.
The field is populated by a scanner using OCR, so there is no assurance that there will always be 5 characters. Plus nulls are allowed in the table.

the following code:

set filter to ! transform(val(ZipCode)) == ZipCode

reveals blanks and zipcodes beginning with 0 as well as those containing alpha characters.