[ic] Creating UNIQUE NUMBER

[Ed LaFrance]

At 03:25 PM 3/18/2002 +1030, you wrote:
>Hi guys;
>
>I am just refering to my previous email. Does anyone know how to create
>a uniques primary key number that will autoincrement itself but will
>bein following format:
>
>
>#ID0001 or something similar.
>
>
>Please help.
>
>Any help highly welcome.
>
>Alma

The [counter] tag will do this. Take a look etc/order.counter for an 
example of the format the of the counter file; you can start the number 
with one or more alpha characters and IC will preserve those. Take a look 
at the tag docs for [counter] for more info.

- Ed L.


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