Best way to query for checks?

[David Carlson]

On 2/25/2012 8:17 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> On 2/24/2012 10:29 PM, dniezby wrote:
>> If I want to search for checks 2000 through 2013 what would be the best way
>> to query this?
>>
>> NUMBER matches REGEX ?
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> 
> OK,
> I just did some research on regular expressions and found the website
> <http://www.regular-expressions.info/>.
> 
> regex is a text only tool and to exactly query that number range is
> possible but not trivial.  The expression 20[1-1][0-9] would get close.
> 
> David
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Sorry, I meant The expression 20[0-1][0-9] would get close.

I personally am from the old school where expressions were mostly
numeric in nature, so I would never have guessed that regex was a text
tool.  This is really interesting!

David
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