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From: Dave Mayall <>
Subject: Re: How to enter unreadable characters when you can't tell how many
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:31:54 +0100
References: <00a601c0d002$75af2b20$16b279c3@holland>
In-Reply-To: <00a601c0d002$75af2b20$16b279c3@holland>


On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:43:43 +0200, you wrote:

>I am currently working from some photocopies where it looks like the toner
>was running a bit low, and in a few places not only can I not read the
>characters, but also for the first time since I started transcribing I
>cannot tell how many characters that are unreadable
>
>e.g. Mari.... could be Maria, Marie, Marian, Marion, or a non-standard name
>
>As per the knowledge base 6d I entered tried to use the _{min,max}
>convention which is not supported by SpeedBMD, so I used Notepad
>BOURNE,Ann Mari_{1,2},Droitwich,6c,395
>which the upload program did not like because of the extra comma making it
>think there were 6 fields on the line
>
>So I tried
>BOURNE,"Ann Mari_{1,2}",Droitwich,6c,395
>which gives the error message
>Unexpected characters in first names 'Ann Mari_{1,2}'
>at line 346 (BOURNE,"Ann Mari_{1,2}",Droitwich,6c,395)
>
>I am about to change to use the * convention for an uncertain number of
>entries, but would appreciate help about how to use the {min,max} convention
>since that gives a more precise description of what I can read.

The second version is right! There is a fault in the validation in
FreeBMD.

Please keep reminding me (direct rather than on the list) until I fix
it.

--
Dave Mayall

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