OK, now I get it <g>

What you actually want to do is use is:

WHERE cPeriod LIKE ?lcPeriod

and then lcPeriod could be "%" when you want to get all periods. The actual answer to your question then should have been that "%" is the wildcard <g> ... but you also have to specify LIKE rather than =

HTH,
~~Bonnie


>Well, I'm actually doing this with a graphical view....I have a remote view with the parameter of cPeriod c(20). Most of the time, I want to only retrieve data with one particular period. However, I had hoped to be able to pass, rather than the specific period, a wildcard to indicate the whole file should be retrieved. The alternative to this is to create an identical view without the parameter, but that seemed inefficient to me. Normally, I would do just that, but the view is full of joins, etc, which (to my knowledge) must be manually copied into a new view.
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>Hope that clarifies things a bit. If I'm doing this all wrong, I'm definitely open to better suggestions!