I'm working on a custom tag for exactly this for the next jComponents
release - if anyone would like to test it and give feedback, it'd be
appreciated.  Plz. reply off-list.

-joe

----- Original Message -----
From: Cornillon, Matthieu (Consultant) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:27:37 -0400
Subject: RE: Select Box / LIKE operator
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> If the end user just enters "e"
> in the search box, I am not so  
> sure that I want every name that  
> contains an 'e' to be returned....  
> Or do I???
>
> What is the consensus on how to  
> make something like this work best?

I personally like the "anywhere in the string" approach, but I have found
that most people expect it to be at the start of the string, as Steve
mentioned.  People get confused when a search for DER returns ANDERSON at
the top of the list, when they were in fact looking for DEREK.

HTH,
Matthieu________________________________
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