WHERE VAL(Number) = 111>Trying to make this work on VFP tables accessed via odbc:
>TEXT TO mystring NOSHOW TEXTMERGE >SELECT name,apt_room,occup_id,number,st_prefix,street,st_type,st_suffix,apt_room FROM occ_main WHERE CAST(LEFT(Number, PATINDEX('%[-, /\@#$%^!&*()+A-Z]%', Number + 'A')-1) AS int) = 111 AND street = 'GUILFORD COLLEGE' AND st_type = 'RD' >ENDTEXT >>The exact same syntax works in SQL2000/SQL2005 but not when the backend is VFP tables accessed via odbc.
