>Nadya -
>
>I haven't tried this but I think it should work. The expression:
>(lcMyAPN = TRANSFORM(lcMyAPN, "999999X-X999999X-X999999XX-XX999999X-XXXXXX"))
>should return .T. if the APN matches the format string.
>
>Let me know if I'm right :)
>zahid
Looks ok in my tests :) Yours function is simple :))))))
Thanks a lot.
>
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>For APN I have this format:
>>999999X-X999999X-X999999XX-XX999999X-XXXXXX,
>>
>> where 9 is a digit,
>> X as upper case alpha,
>> and - is hyphen.
>>
>>I have an UDF, which determines, is APN valid by inspecting each character. I'm just curious, is there more elegant and simple solution (and should be faster, of course)?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
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