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  3. June 2006

Re: Wild Card Processing

If you move 123456 into your key field, then do a START FILE-NAME KEY NOT < KEY-NAME that will position the record pointer to the first record. As you execute your READ FILE-NAME NEXT RECORD statements, check to see if the key field = 123456
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Folorunso" <jfolorunso@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <COBOL400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 9:28 PM
Subject: [COBOL400-L] Wild Card Processing



 How do one process wild cards using COBOL/400  for example if I
have a field that   partial information is provided and I have to process
all records with same information. For example if the user only supplies me with this type of value for this field that contain 20 characters but only provides me with 6 characters like this 123456* do I use an embedded SQL or make the field a partial list of a key in order to process this records. Thanks. 

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