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brophymj
Quartz | Level 8

My understanding is that this function returns a position of the first letter of the alphabet in a string. Is there a similar function that include all non-numeric symbols.

The code I'm using is if anyalpha(field1) eq 0 then field2 = field1;

else field2 = 0;

But I'm not sure what function I should use if there is "/", "-", etc.

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Ksharp
Super User

Check  notdigit()   function .

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brophymj
Quartz | Level 8

I actually googled it there and the function for non-alphabetical characters is notalpha

brophymj
Quartz | Level 8

actually that doesn't work. What I'm looking for is a function that returns the position of the first character in a string that is not a number.

RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Have you tried:

position=findc(your_string,'_','a');

Note I just added _ to give it something to work with, the main part is the 'a' which adds all the alpha characters.

Ksharp
Super User

Check  notdigit()   function .

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