RE: sql DELETE FROM with wildcard "%"

Thanks, Birgitta... I hadn't tried a varying field.  It's good to know that
it works the way one would expect.

It's also nice to know that you can use TRIM on a host variable.  It would
be nice if you could then concatenate that trimmed variables with a '%'
right in the SQL statement.

Joe

From: HauserBirgitta

Hi,

there are several possibilites to solve your problem:

Here are some examples:
D HstName         S             50A   varying
D HstNameFix      S             50A
 *------------------------------------------------------
C                   Eval      HstNameFix = '%Media%'

C/Exec SQL
C+ Delete from MyTable
C+            Where  Name Like Trim(:HstNameFix)
C/End-Exec

C                   Eval      HstName = '%Meier%'

C/Exec SQL
C+ Delete From MyTable
C+            Where Name Like :HstName
C/End-Exec

C                   Eval      HstName = 'Miller'

C/Exec SQL
C+ Delete From MyTable
C+            Where PosStr(Name, :HstName) > 0
C/END-EXEC

C                   Eval      HstNameFix = 'Brown'

C/Exec SQL
C+ Delete From MyTable
C+            Where PosStr(Name, Trim(:HstNameFix)) > 0
C/END-EXEC

Hope this helps.

Mit freunlichen Gruessen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

Is this the correct way to write an embedded sql "DELETE FROM" statement
with a wildcard?
==============================================================
          C/EXEC SQL
          C+ delete from qtemp/tempf1 where ACITY not like :BCITY || '%'
          C/END-EXEC
==============================================================

Thanks,

Frank