I have been tasked to create a script that will parse through records(this much I have done) and validate a telephone number field. I first want to count all the characters in that field, clean the field of all spaces and non numerics, and flag the ones which are not 10 or 4 digits. Then print a list with the old numbers, new numbers and flagged numbers.

What have you tried so far, and what went wrong? Or do you want us to write the script? If so, please mention your credit card details ;-) 

Juerd
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In reply to Re: Character Counts by Juerd
in thread Character Counts by Anonymous Monk

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