You may need to substitute an asterisk (*) for the percent sign (%) when using the 
multiple character wildcard and a question mark (?) for the underscore ( _ ) when 
using a single character wildcard.

Dina

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Diana Nichols 
  To: CF-Talk 
  Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 12:08 PM
  Subject: RE: Quick query question (qqq)


  Will- try this:

  SELECT town_name
  FROM towns
  WHERE town_name LIKE '#form.letter#%'

  The % tells it to match the letter with anything following it.

  If you wanted to match a word or word part which could be anywhere in the
  name, you would use LIKE '%#form.letter#%'


  HTH
  D

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: W Luke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 1:00 PM
  To: CF-Talk
  Subject: Quick query question (qqq)


  I have a list of towns (3000 or so), and need to output them per letter in
  the alphabet. For instance, I might need to pull up all towns starting with
  the letter M.  To choose the letter, there will be a drop down box with A-Z
  in it (form.letter)

  How can I do this in my query?

  Cheers

  Will
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