NUMERIC condition checking on Alphanumeric value with spaces

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Rajapriyaaa1
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NUMERIC condition checking on Alphanumeric value with spaces

Post by Rajapriyaaa1 » Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:48 am

Hi,

I have to validate the account number which is of X(19). but in actual input it can have 16 to 19 digits even less than 16 also. if its less than 19 means the last digits are filled with spaces like '1234567890123456 '. If I validate this account number as numeric, this condition failed and all the accounts which has <19 will get rejected.

Please suggest me the way what we can do for this. We dont want to prefix with zeros we are not supposed to do.

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Post by dbzTHEdinosauer » Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:12 pm

have you tried NUMVAL?

also, how are you currently validating the PIC X field for numerics?
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