{"id":4871,"date":"2014-03-21T16:49:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T16:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2018-11-30T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T09:00:35","slug":"pattern-matching-in-sage-x3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/2014\/03\/21\/pattern-matching-in-sage-x3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattern Matching in Sage X3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may often need to write a code that performs inexact pattern matching. The use of \u201cPAT\u201d allows you to find data that fits a certain pattern, rather than specifying the code exactly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>New Stuff:<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<a title=\"Sage Introduces New Enhancements for Sage ERP X3 v6.5 (Patch 27)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/2014\/03\/21\/sage-introduces-new-enhancements-for-sage-erp-x3-v6-5-patch-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sage Introduces New Enhancements for Sage ERP X3 v6.5 (Patch 27)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Syntax<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>pat( expr_c, pattern )<\/p>\n<p>Where \u201cexpr_c\u201d is an alphanumeric expression defining the string whose compliance is to be tested with the pattern given. And \u201cpattern\u201d is an alphanumeric expression defining the compliance pattern.<\/p>\n<p>PAT is used to check compliance of a character string with a given pattern. This compliance uses the following conventions for the patterns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The character &#8216;*&#8217; represents any number of characters, even null,<\/li>\n<li>The character &#8216;?&#8217; represents precisely one character,<\/li>\n<li>The character &#8216;#&#8217; represents a digit,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For example,<\/p>\n<p>You may also combine these characters in complex patterns to perform more advanced queries. For example, supposedly you needed to write code for checking whether user is entering proper Email address or not. You could use the following Code:<\/p>\n<p>If not(pat([M:ABC]EMAILID,&#8221;*#@*.*&#8221;))<\/p>\n<p>Infbox(&#8220;Wrong Email address&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Endif<\/p>\n<p>All the other characters in a pattern must exist in the character string to be checked so that compliance may be recognised.<\/p>\n<p><b>PAT<\/b> returns an Integer type result: when the string is compliant, <b>PAT<\/b> returns 1, otherwise a 0.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: Medium;\"><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/\">Greytrix<\/a> \u2013 a globally recognized Premier Sage Gold Development Partner is a one-stop solution provider for Sage ERP and Sage CRM needs. Being recognized and rewarded for multi-man years of experience, we bring complete end-to-end assistance for your technical consultations, product customizations, data migration, system integrations, third-party add-on development and implementation expertise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/\">Greytrix<\/a>\u00a0caters to a wide range of Sage Enterprise Management (Sage X3) offerings \u2013 a Sage Business Cloud Solution. 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We will be glad to assist you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may often need to write a code that performs inexact pattern matching. The use of \u201cPAT\u201d allows you to find data that fits a certain pattern, rather than specifying the code exactly. New Stuff:\u00a0Sage Introduces New Enhancements for Sage ERP X3 v6.5 (Patch 27) Syntax pat( expr_c, pattern ) Where \u201cexpr_c\u201d is an alphanumeric\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/2014\/03\/21\/pattern-matching-in-sage-x3\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1435,1446,2192],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pat","tag-pattern","tag-string-matching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16670,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/16670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}