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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Have you checked the PDL for your dictionary and made sure that
symbol is not used as a “Reserved” or any other option in the “System Options”
declaration of the PDL?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>This might cause some weird issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Ken<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com@lists.sowder.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Butland, Nick<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> powerh-l@lists.sowder.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Metacharacters & pattern matching<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Let’s
see if anyone else can crack this, because I am fed up seeing the message
“Invalid pattern specification. Check pattern syntax.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Operating
system is VMS v7.2-2,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>PowerHouse
version 7.10.E6 (as it has been for rather a long time…).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>I
have an element which has an existing pattern of “(\!|)*”. This allows any
number of any alphanumeric character with the exclusion of the “post”
character, as we use this as a delimiter for some data imports into Excel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Last
week we had an interface fail as the result of the inclusion of a £ character
in the data. I have tried to amend the pattern to something along the lines of
“(\((!|)|£))*”, but this gives the error message above. The current try has
"(\£|(!|))*", but any input into this triggers the message “There is
a control character in this pattern.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Any
suggestions? So far as I am aware, all the entries on the metacharacter screen
are defaults.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Nick Butland</span><span
lang=EN-GB> <br>
</span><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>IT Project Leader, Acco UK</span>
<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Tel
01296-732150</span><span lang=EN-GB> <br>
</span><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Fax 01296-732151</span><span
lang=EN-GB> <br>
</span><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a
href="mailto:nick.butland@acco.com" title="mailto:nick.butland@acco.com">Email:
nick.butland@acco.com</a></span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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