As I said previously, why not use the whole provided value 'abd alkareem '? The '==' operator will exoure than it's full match. Check http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/string-comparison-vfp for more info.

select name from mytable where name1 == thisform.text10.value

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>if i have this name (abd alkareem ) at field(name1) this name have 2 parts and space between the name,
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>i want to find this name via select statment,
>if i use code as below
> if LEN(ALLTRIM(thisform.text10.value)) > =3
> For x=1 to getwordcoun(thisform.text10.value)
> lcName = getwordnum(thisform.text10.value,m.x)
> if m.x=1
>select name form mytable where name =this form.text10.value.........etc
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>i get only all name start with (abd) i need to get all name as (abd alkareem ) at the grid.
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>i hope this enough information , if yes or not thank you all the time
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>m.qasem
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