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We have a requirement to compare the format of one field with the value in another field.

Ideally there would be a function called format() that could return the kinds of format that is generated within column analysis but it appears that there is not.

Can anyone suggest an approach for solving this problem in a data rule definition? Or even in column analysis?

Thank you for your time.

Is this "another field" a list of acceptable formats?

You might need to pull the column analysis frequency distribution info out of IADB.
Look to the IAAdmin API. This is outside of the IA tool.