>how to search for records containing the search string?
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>say, my user entered "ELL", i want to be able to search into my table all records that contains the word "ELL" like "HELLO", "BELL", "SELLER"
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select * from where like="%ELL%"

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>can i do this using locate? i want to search in the same table, not to put the result in a table or a cursor.
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>any help pls?

SET FILTER TO "ELL" $ MyField

or:

SET FILTER TO "ELL" $ upper(MyField)

This can be slow, since no indexes can be used to optimize this filter.