>Hilmar,
>
>I just thought it was odd that the expression searched,
>would give different results depending on characters
>being added as a prefix of suffix. But I guess the
>= sign works the same way...

The equal sign, unless Exact is ON, compares the string to the length of the righthand string; so if the string on the right is three characters long, only the first three characters of the string on the left are compared.