We have an application I wrote which records parking stickers for the college.
It saves data using the person's ID and license plate (with certain bad
characters removed). However SELECTS against the file occasionally fail if
the license plate string is interpreted by Unidata as a pattern.
For example:
:LIST H08.PS.VEHICLES WITH @ID LIKE ...4296...
0717266*4296XH
1 record listed
:LIST H08.PS.VEHICLES WITH @ID LIKE ...4296XH
No records listed.
I'm not terribly familiar with pattern matching in Unidata, but am wondering
if there's a UDT option I can switch off in certain situations to avoid this.
(I'm looking thur my UDT Options Command Ref and can't see anything yet...)
Our Public Safety office is irritated because searching on an exact plate
sometimes fails yet a partial plate succeeds.
--
Jeff Butera, Ph.D.
Administrative Systems
Hampshire College
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
413-559-5556
"...our behavior matters more than the beliefs that we profess."
Elizabeth Deutsch Earle
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