Good detail. Thanks.
Accents are not part of British postcodes, so worry
about data pathologies need mot morph into paranoia.
Nick
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Seb Buechte
> Well, if you do not know, wether all letters capitalized, this
> modification may workout for you, it is basically adding the upper()
> function:
>
> replace postcode
> = substr(postcode,1,length(postcode)-1)
> if inrange(upper(substr(postcode,-1,1)), "A","Z")
>
> The upper() function will not work for letters like "�" or "�" with a
> ASCII code > 122.
Nick Cox
> > replace postcode
> > = substr(postcode,1,length(postcode)-1)
> > if inrange(substr(postcode,-1,1), "A","Z")
> >
> > This assumes no rogue "a" through "z" in
> > last position. Check for that
> >
> > . assert !inrange(substr(postcode,-1,1), "a","z")
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Paul O'Brien (modulo non-ASCII mailjunk)
> >
> > How do I remove the last letter from a string which ends
> with a letter but does nothing if the string ends in a digit?
> The string is either 3 or 4 characters long:
> >
> > EC4A
> > EC4P
> > EC4Y
> > DA15
> > SE10
> > SE2
> > SE3
> > W1A
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