Re: Locate vs Like

What are you trying to do? LOCATE and LIKE are not going to do the same things. LOCATE is a built-in function that returns the first position that a search string occurs in another string. LIKE is a predicate for comparing values.

I can't see where they can be used for the same purpose - please explain.

Now there is a problem in your code, I think - what is Class.snapshotpath? Is it an element of a data structure? If so, you can't use it to concatenate with the SQL concatenation - you have to use RPG concatenation.

Because Class.snapshotpath does not look like an SQL column name.

HTH
Vern

On 6/25/2012 3:37 PM, Naveen Kapoor wrote:

Hello All,

I have a situation where i have to passin a parameter from a program and in
the called program I have to use it with IN predicate.

I read that its not possible so tried it with like statement, but I wanted
to do with LOCATE keyword, do any one have any idea on how to do this.

(Case
When :parmSnapShPath <>' '
then :parmSnapShPath
else '%' || trim(Class.snapshotpath) || '%'
end ) like '%' || trim(Class.snapshotpath) || '%'

Where parmSnapSHPath is having more than one values like
('A','B','C'......)