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- From: ytsai@darwin.helios.nd.edu (yijean tsai)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: filters in 4D
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.142858.22140@news.nd.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:28:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Jul28.142858.22140
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- Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
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- I have a student ID field of 10 characters long. The student ID is normally a
- social security number except for the foreign student there is a "Z" appened
- to a 9-digit number. I set the filter as "!#&9###-##-####~"z;Z"#".
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- The problem is that when I enter a social security number for this field, it
- will automatically append the "#" (or whichever placeholder I use) to the end.
- How could I get rid of the "#" such that I can get the correct selection when I
- use the social security number to search for data.
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