That did it!
Thanks, Ben,Mosh and others.
JS
It looks like you've already pretty much got it down:
WHERE
(this_field NOT LIKE '#this_item#%')
AND (this_field LIKE '%#this_item#%')
^ ^
Just put the % both before and after "this_item" in
the second conditional
clause.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: JS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:49 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: OT DB field contains but is not first list
element
>
>
> I have a situation where I have a list of elements
in
> a db field and I need to pull the records where an
> item appears somewhere in the list but is not the
> first item. Something like
> WHERE (this_field NOT LIKE '#this_item#%') AND
> (this_field LIKE '%#this_item#')
>
> It is a SQL 7 db.
>
> TIA,
> JS
>
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