RE: SQL LIKE (was pass parms to qry400)

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark A. Manske wrote:

-snip about using QMQRY for SQL-

>This works, BUT - the doc states you can do a 
>"like", how does that work, I cannot seem to 
>get the % and the : to work together in the 
>query to get to the dependent value screen, 
>so that I can pass a string to query manager to
>allow it to "search" through a file for say 
>customer name containing "RED"...

You may be experiencing one of those "quote moments."  Here's a working
example:
SELECT NAME,TOTAL    
FROM MASTER          
WHERE NAME LIKE &LIKE
ORDER BY NAME        

strqmqry master2 setvar((LIKE '''%Buck%''')) 

Those quotes are three tick marks (single quotes)
Hope this helps...
Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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