Brian Dunning's FileMaker Custom Functions

contains_text

Shows TRUE if a string contains an alphanumeric character (a-z, A-Z)

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  Sample input:
contains_text(1234A56)
  Sample output:
1

  Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

Often, when working with data that's been OCR'd or parsed from a block of text fields that are supposed to contain only numbers, it contains some letters. This function will flag records that are not fully numeric.

One use is when you OCR a lot of pages of data, text headers and footer, and also column label are imported. This will let you find the specific records that needed to be deleted (column headers, footers) or corrected.

 

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