That should be fine with just the addition of checking for the start and end of line. If you excuse me for a minute while I whip out my Regular Expressions in 10 minutes book...
.... it might be this ^[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{5,11}$ Does that work? Ade -----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 February 2005 18:55 To: CF-Talk Subject: Tighten up this logic. Would somebody (or several somebody's) mind tighting up this logic. <!--- Else If: the 1st field of the record is between 6 and 12 characters long, begins with 1 or 2 letters and ends with 5 to 11 digits, then the value is an Eye readable Codabar format. ---> <cfelseif len(trim(recAry[1])) GTE 6 AND len(trim(recAry[1])) LTE 12 AND refind("[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{5,11}",Ucase(trim(recAry[1])))> This [d4238616c] value should not have gotten through, but it did. -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 14/02/2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195445 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54