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On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Glenn Gundermann
<glenn.gundermann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
IN is used when you have a list, e.g. WHERE :values IN ('Y', 'N') or
something like that.
You do not have a list. You have one string.
You might want to check out POSSTR and LOCATE.

Good advice. Those are appropriate functions for this situation.

Just as a very, very small aside: In Python, the 'in' operator works
for both elements of an array and substrings within strings.

John Y.

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