David,
You always change things just when I thought I had got it
sorted.
Firstly I do not understanf what the '/' means. Does it mean
the letter before is mandatory?
Secondly where did the 'N' come from. I thought it was '#'.
The reason for the symbols was that for numbers we have 0 for mandatory
# for optional (digits and whitespace and nothing) so I thought symbols
for option letter might be approriate?
Martin Roberts
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BT Exact
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-----Original Message-----
From: David RR Webber - XML ebusiness [mailto:]
Sent: 11 July 2003 04:52
To: Roberts,MME,Martin,XSG3 R
Cc:
Subject: RE: [cam] Masks
Martin,
Excellent catch.
What about the '/' as in U/UN/N U/UN/N for a UK postal code?
Thanks, DW. ========================================================
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For string masks this does not exist. Therefore I suggest that
we introduce this concept for strings. The problem is what character to
use? I suggest the following:
X any char mandatory . Any char optional
U Uppercase mandatory ^ Uppercase optional
L Lowercase mandatory _ Lowercase optional
What doe you think?
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