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Thanks. Not sure what I was missing my first try.
>>I am not sure the fastest way to do this kind of search in sql server, maybe a regular expression?
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>>Let's say I have a 6 character varchar field. In that field are license plate nunbers, such as "L1 234", "QA3333", etc. Now the user enters via a telephone 6 numbers. (I cannot control the IVR portion and must deal with the 6 numbers.) Now given the phone pad, if a user enters "235466" that could really mean:
>>235466
>>A35466
>>B35466
>>C35466
>>2A5466
>>2B5466
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>>etc for millions of combinations. I need to pull the recordfs that match any of those possibilities.
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>>Comments?
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>What do you get when you search using
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>select * from Licenses where Plate like '[2a-c]%'
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>? If you get all plates where the value is starting with 2 or letters A, B, C, then this is your answer. Create your pattern this way and you should be good.
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