John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have a field I use for selecting records in a database of test
questions by placing unique strings in the field. For example, I might
enter "FE1a-001" which means that it will be merged into Final Exam 1a
and will be question #1. This works well, but sometimes I need to merge
the same question into other documents. For example, if I want the same
question to appear in Final Exam 3c as question #30 I need to enter
"FE3c-030" in this field as well.
I can add both values in the field, but then the select queries do not
pick up the record at all. I need the LIKE operator to function as long
as the string occurs *anywhere* in the field, not that the field be
*the same as* the string.
I tried adding a new field, but Base informed me that if I did so it
would delete all the data in the table!
I need to get the project delivered to the customer by Monday morning
so I'm getting desperate for a solution. The Help file has nothing
about how the syntax is supposed to work. Are there other operators
besides LIKE? If so, what are they, and how do they work?
I think you just need LIKE, but using a leading wildcard (*) before your
search string, and probably after as well. For instance, I have queries
that look for a given month anywhere in a field with LIKE '*01/*' to
select any record that has the characters 01/ in it.
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