Re: selecting for type cast failures

On 03/07/2013 08:56 PM, David Johnston wrote:
> Adrian Klaver-3 wrote
>> My opinion, it would take more time to concoct regexes that cover all
>> the corner cases than to write a script that walks the through the data
>> , finds the problem data and flags them.
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> ISTM that using regular expressions is necessary regardless of whether you
> put them into a function/script or otherwise use them interactively via
> queries...

Not necessarily. I have done this sort of thing in Python by 'pre'
casting, using Python casting to weed out the problem children.

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