Re: SQL wildcard search

[rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

no 'ands' needed.  

Field1 like '%mor%' or Field2 like '%mor%' or Field3 like '%mor%'

if you want matches without case sensitivity, you're either looking
for more ORs or some sort of conversion to uppercase.

others may help in that respect




On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:12:41 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Booth
Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am sure my terminology is wrong, but I would like to use SQLRPGLE to
> choose all of the records in a file that have a certain group of letters in
> any one of three fields.
> 
> for example, select the records that have "mor" in Field1, Field2, or Field3
>   This would return records that had the words more, moron, Mort, mortgage,
> amore, smores, or mortuary in any one of those three fields.
> 
> I tried Where Field1 like %mor%  and that appeared to work, but I can't
> figure out how to and/or the clause to choose Field 2 & Field3.
> 
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