Re: Pattern Matching

this side for shure is for help, lets u play arround with regex http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ ralph ralph_deffke@yahoo.de "Floyd Resler" <fresler@adex-intl.com> wrote in message news:50FC5AB0-EE8B-4AC2-B982-9262A3977B8F@adex-intl.com... > I need some assistance in pattern matching. I want allow the admin > user to enter a pattern to be matched in my order form editor. When > someone then places an order I want to do a match based on that > pattern. Some of the examples I thought for the patterns are: > ######## - must be numeric and 8 digits > AAAAAA - must be alpha and 6 characters > #A? - must be alphanumeric any length > ##-A#A - must have two numbers, a dash, a letter, a number, and a letter > > I'm sure regular expressions are the answers but I am not well-versed > in those at all and I'm not sure how to make the above patterns work > in or even they are the best examples to use. Any help would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > Floyd >