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Detecting letters in an alpha variables

Posted: March 5th, 2021, 2:20 am
by blumski
Hello cspro users

Is there a function that allows to check if an alpha variable contains letters ?

Re: Detecting letters in an alpha variables

Posted: March 6th, 2021, 9:44 pm
by aaronw
You could use the regex functionality to check if an alphanumeric variable contains letters. Below I've linked the regexmatch helps, a blog post that walks through its use, and a Stack Overflow post that discusses possible expressions.

helps: https://www.csprousers.org/help/CSPro/r ... ction.html
blog post: https://www.csprousers.org/posts/2019-0 ... sions.html
Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/606 ... characters

Re: Detecting letters in an alpha variables

Posted: March 7th, 2021, 3:21 am
by blumski
Thank you very much