3/4 baked answer: Sounds like you need separate fields. better to build that in now than struggle with it forever. Do you use a "name" field, or "first name" and "last name"?

>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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>Thanks
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>Kevin