I tried this as well, and not sure why, but q### is returning nothing.  

It should return ### correct?

Lisa 


-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 2:58 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Character String Check

Something like this is where I usually take advantage of the Oracle database's 
TRANSLATE function.  I do a set fields (to a Display only field) translating 
all letters and numbers to nothing (as well as hyphen and underscore in your 
case).  If there any characters left over then in a second filter I show an 
error.

SQL Set Fields 
   Select TRANSLATE('$Field$', 
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-0123456789_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz','') from DUAL


In pure Remedy you could do a series of replacements to remove each character 
and that will do the same thing.

Fred


-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kemes, Lisa
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 1:31 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Character String Check

**
I need to check a character field to make sure that the string in the field is 
alphanumeric and the only special characters that are allowed are a hyphen "-" 
or an underscore.  No spaces allowed either.

I've tried a bunch of workflow and it's just not working for me.


Lisa Kemes
AR System Developer
TE Information Systems
Global Infrastructure and Ops
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lisa.ke...@te.com
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Harrisburg, PA 17105-3608


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