RE: Real world use for wildcard statement

2002-04-26 Thread Timothy Heald
Well I know we use them to search SQL Databases in the where statement. Tim Heald ACP/CCFD :) Application Development www.schoollink.net > -Original Message- > From: Adrian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:12 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject:

Real world use for wildcard statement

2002-04-26 Thread Adrian Lynch
Can anyone think of a real world use for a wildcard statement like this LIKE '%a%b%c%d%' It's in the Ben Forta study guide and it came up in a drinking session that there wasn't a real use for this sort of thing. Seaching for strings in a particular order in a larger string would be one, but ar