>>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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>Here's another one:
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>set filter to chrtran(zipcode, "0123456789","9999999999")#"99999"

Very nice! Much better than my suggestion!