Detecting truncations: another sometimes successful method

Posted by Bob_Mesibov on Dec 14, 2021 11:10 PM EDT
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I occasionally find truncated strings in a data audit. These usually appear when a data item N characters long has been entered in a free-text field with a character limit smaller than N. Detecting truncations programmatically is difficult and not always successful. This post describes the latest of four methods I've tried.

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