in reply to Re: searching for strings
in thread searching for strings

RMGir,
First off, the 2 matching strings have to be the same length, so you can use the length function to check that.

I think the problem is more complicated than you think. As BrowserUk points out - the OP has indicated 'BBC49' and 'BBC50' is a match. Even if you corrected for that, I think your first discriminating factor would be wrong. Consider ABC99 and ABC100.

Cheers - L~R

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