Sequence

Increments the characters in the string oldnumber$.

 

It is common in database applications to utilize sequenced fields, perhaps to assign account or part numbers automatically. For example, if the last customer acount number on record is, say “AAA-0134-52”, the Sequence function will increment it to be “AAA-0134-53”. Likewise if oldnumber$ were “009-AABD-99”, Sequence would change it to “009-AABE-00”.

 

Sequence will increment the characters in any of the following three catagories: digits, upper case letters and lower case letters. Imbedded delimiters are unaffected, and “wrapping” will extend across any blanks or non-numeric/alphabetic characters.

 

Unique.