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re: using find in notepad
Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 3:00 pm
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Posted by rmoore (210 messages posted)


Can you imoprt your lists to Excel? If so, you could use the LEN formula which will return the number of characters in a text string.


On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 8:00 pm, Jerry wrote:
>At the place I work we enter in a lot of barcodes into an SQL based program. We then
>send a manifest (in notepad format) to our customer. Who in return enters it into
>another program for verification reasons. Sometimes there is a glitch, and one or
>several of the numbers that were scanned in are too short in length. That makes there
>program spit it back out. Is there any way to search for say any characters less
>than 16 digits in length? There are thousands of numbers to search through, and this
>takes forever.


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using find in notepad (Jerry: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 8:00 pm)

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