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Validation Rule Problem

I'm dealing with a Hospital No. in a table which follows the format that the first character is an uppercase letter and the remaining six characters have to be numbers e.g T123456, G564398, etc.

What would the validation rule look like in the table design view for this field to achieve this?
Sep 27 '07 #1
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I'm dealing with a Hospital No. in a table which follows the format that the first character is an uppercase letter and the remaining six characters have to be numbers e.g T123456, G564398, etc.

What would the validation rule look like in the table design view for this field to achieve this?
I would use the Input Mask for the Hospital No field in your table as >L000000. By doing this, the first haracter is always upper case and the following 6 characters are always digits. This will also limit user input to 7 characters - anything more or less will get an error message.

Hope this helps
Sep 27 '07 #2

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