>>I'm just trying to do this in the DE now, and whenever the where is a Memo field I get the empty ones as well.
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>>I must be doing something wrong?
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>Oh, I see. See SET EXACT ON in the help.
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>You may be better off asking for left(MyMemoField,2) = "te" in this case.
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>Hilmar.

In the Help it says

"" = "ab"  is no match

Is this not my case (comparing an empty string to something)?