dwain.c (4/8/2015)
Jim-S (4/8/2015)
Hi Dwain,No, I'm not aware. I assumed it was pretty much two slightly different methods to achieve the same result.
Alan has given you the more general form that will always work but is also slightly slower. There are some special characters that, when appearing in the string will cause the concatenated result to be off. These are found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references in the section on Predefined entities in XML.
Using TYPE/.value as Alan has done eliminates this parsing issue.
Yes I can see the difference in the results, thanks for taking the time to explain. The branch number I am using will always be 2 letters followed by a number.
Thanks again.
Jim