>>Yes, with chrtran() you can strip out digits and hyphens. If the len() >remains > 0, it means you have a letter, in your example, an "A".
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>>? len(chrtran("7A40-09-7", "0123456789-", "")) > 0
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>Thanks for all your help, this is working great in production
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>Jeff
OK, great.
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