>>>>Sergey,
>>>>
>>>>Again, great for noticing. I understood this bug at home too, but your message was a reminder to me to fix it. I'll do it right now.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks again for your help. I noticed, you often use this technique, and I'll start too. I also will investigate "Ed's route"...
>>>>
>>>Out of general boredom:
>>>
>>>
oRegExp=CREATEOBJ('vbscript.regexp')
>>>oRegExp.Pattern = '\d{6}[A-Z]-[A-Z]\d{6}[A-Z]-[A-Z]\d{6}[A-Z]{2}-[A-Z]{2}\d{6}[A-Z]'
>>>? oRegExp.Test('012345A-B012345C-D012345EF-GH012345I')
>>>? oRegExp.Test('012345A-b012345C-D012345EF-GH012345I')
>>
>>Great, Ed. Thanks a lot. One little problem: [A-Z] could be also space, e.g.
>>in mask: lcMask = "999999X-X999999X-X999999XX-XX999999X"
>>X could be upper alpha or space.
>
>PMFJI,
>
>Use [A-Z/s], or IOW:
oRegExp.Pattern = '\d{6}[A-Z\s]-[A-Z\s]\d{6}[A-Z\s]-[A-Z\s]\d{6}[A-Z\s]{2}-[A-Z\s]{2}\d{6}[A-Z\s]'
Whoops, make that...Use [A-Z\s]. Right in the example, wrong in the intital statement.
George
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