>how do use a wild card in a query.
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>In Visual Foxpro, how do you do a query that includes, a Master Account field of all the 1-??-???-4??? which would give you only 1-00-345-4010 but not 1-00-435-5034.
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Best would be to use the SQL LIKE clause, which uses % rather than * and _ rather than ?, or you can use the LIKE() function. Realize that neither is optimizable; the LIKE clause ports to backends cleanly.