>>I need to determine if any combination of numbers formatted like this: 999-9999 is within a string. The string may have (999)999-9999 or 999-999-9999 or anything else, but it will always have 999-9999 (123-1234, 987-321-9382, etc). Any way to do that? Perhaps the string is:
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>>Examples:
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>>Suite 100 123-1234  && .t. because it contains 123-1234
>>Bldg J (910)222-2222  && .t. because it contains 222-2222
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>Convert all numbers to digits 9 and then check.
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>With simple chrtran()
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>lcNumbers = '0123456789'
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>lcNewString = chrtran(m.lcString,m.lcNumbers, replicate('9',10))
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>? "999-9999" $ lcNewString

Very cool!