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I have ran into problems using LIKE when I don't leave the trailing blanks.. For example. FldA = STS3576 and its 10 chars long. If you use Where flda like 'STS3576' it will not match, but if you add the spaces flda like 'STS3576 ' It does work...At least that what it does on my machine.. Maybe a ptf thing, but I just tried it. tim -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:32 PM To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: SQL Like Question. I have a question that I don't know if I can search on in the midrange archives (search function is currently disabled). Anyway, I've created this SQL where clause like this. WHERE PRER = :A1ER AND (PRL01 = :A1L01 Or :A1L01 = ' ') AND (PRL02 = :A1L02 Or :A1L02 = ' ') AND (PRL03 = :A1L03 Or :A1L03 = ' ') AND (PRL04 = :A1L04 Or :A1L04 = ' ') AND (PRSEX = :A1SEX Or :A1SEX = ' ') AND (PRSTA1 = :A1STA Or :A1STA = ' ') AND (SUBSTRING(PREN,6,4) = :A1EN4 Or :A1EN4 = ' ') AND (PRFNM LIKE (CASE WHEN :FName <> ' ' THEN TRIM(BOTH ' ' FROM :FName) ELSE '#$%¢#%¢#$%¢#$¢#$%¢' END) OR :FName = ' ') AND ((PRLNM LIKE (CASE WHEN :LName <> ' ' THEN TRIM(BOTH ' ' FROM :LName) ELSE '#$%¢#%¢#$%¢#$¢#$%¢' ELSE '#$%¢#%¢#$%¢#$¢#$%¢' END) OR :LName = ' ') OR (PRPLNM LIKE (CASE WHEN :LName <> ' ' And :A1PLNmYN = 'Y' THEN TRIM(BOTH ' ' FROM :LName) ELSE '#$%¢#%¢#$%¢#$¢#$%¢' END) OR (:LName = ' ' And :A1PLNMYN = 'Y'))) I know that it appears complicated but ignore the for #$%¢#%¢#$%¢#$¢#$%¢ strings the moment (that's only being used because I know that it's completely impossible for either a first name or last name could equal that. My question has to do with the LIKE keyword. Do you have to have a string using the special characters in order for it to work? I may be imagining this but I could have sworn that when I ran this a few weeks ago the program did work when the :LName field equaled SCHUTTE. But today it return no records unless I enter SCHUTTE* (which btw is converted to % in the RPG program). Also note, that I don't need a solution as I have fixed the issue by adding another OR. I just wanted to know if I was crazy or not... This is what it looks like now. WHERE PRER = :A1ER AND (PRL01 = :A1L01 Or :A1L01 = ' ') AND (PRL02 = :A1L02 Or :A1L02 = ' ') AND (PRL03 = :A1L03 Or :A1L03 = ' ') AND (PRL04 = :A1L04 Or :A1L04 = ' ') AND (PRSEX = :A1SEX Or :A1SEX = ' ') AND (PRSTA1 = :A1STA Or :A1STA = ' ') AND (SUBSTRING(PREN,6,4) = :A1EN4 Or :A1EN4 = ' ') AND (PRFNM LIKE (CASE WHEN :FName <> ' ' THEN TRIM(BOTH ' ' FROM :FName) ELSE '#$%¢#%¢#$%¢#$¢#$%¢' END) OR :FName = ' ' OR PRFNM = :FNAME) AND ((PRLNM LIKE (CASE WHEN :LName <> ' ' THEN TRIM(BOTH ' ' FROM :LName) ELSE '#$%¢#%¢#$%¢#$¢#$%¢' ELSE '#$%¢#%¢#$%¢#$¢#$%¢' END) OR :LName = ' ' OR PRLNM = :LName) OR (PRPLNM LIKE (CASE WHEN :LName <> ' ' And :A1PLNmYN = 'Y' THEN TRIM(BOTH ' ' FROM :LName) ELSE '#$%¢#%¢#$%¢#$¢#$%¢' END) OR (:LName = ' ' And :A1PLNMYN = 'Y') OR (:LName = PRPLNM And :A1PLNMYN = 'Y'))) Thanks for your help. Michael Schutte
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