Hi Robert,

Am Thu, 2 Apr 2015 10:39:38 -0700 schrieb Robert Crandal:

However, it is not very precise because it will also
erase something like 123-45-67890000000025, which
is not a valid Social Securty number.

you can add the length of the substrings:

ptrn = "[\d{3}\d{2}\d{4}]"


Regards
Claus B.
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