Thanks, Tore.

I can see that. Another possibility would be a check box or drop down with a selection for "Whole Words Only"

>Hello Steve
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>I am not Allan, but I had the same requirement in an application I wrote years ago.
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>I wanted my customers to be able to enter text to search for in my products database, and I needed to see if they had put in any leading or trailing spaces.
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>For instance if my customers had entered 'cap' they would find 'cap', 'capasitor' and capstan', but if they had entered 'cap ' they would only find 'cap'. And if they entered 'tan' they would find 'tantal' and 'capstan', if they entered ' tan' they would only find 'tantal' if it was word number more than 1.
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>Comprende? :-)
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