The reason that ...AAA... gave a problem is that "A" is one of the characters that have special meaning in pattern matching (the other two being "N" and "X"). Patterns to be used with LIKE or UNLIKE or their synonyms are made up of combinations of the following components: nA exactly n alphabetic characters 0A any number (including zero) of alphabetic characters nN exactly n numeric characters 0N any number (including zero) of numeric characters nX exactly n characters of any type 0X any number of characters of any type 'text' literal text
Because "A" is special, your "AAA" example would need to be explicitly quoted as literal text. field LIKE "...'AAA'..." field LIKE "0X'AAA'0X" (... is the same as 0X) If you'd gone with "BBB" as your example, you could get away without the single quotes (though to include them would be more pedantically correct). A leading tilde (~) reverses the sense of the pattern match. field LIKE "~3N" is satisfied if either: field contains any number of characters than three field contains three characters but they aren't all numeric ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
