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SBPro4

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#31380From: Loren A. BuschDec 8, 1991 2:48 PM
Has anyone else found that the Filter logic on Queries is 'different' when it comes to searching on text fields? I have managed to get around this by always ending the test data with "*", but don't seem to have the same flexibility as I was used to under 3.0/exit
#31509From: Neil RobinsonDec 10, 1991 7:43 PM
Loren, I'm not sure what you mean. It's been years since I played around with 3.0 and in the interim I've been using the Windows version fairly exclusively. I do know that in the SB4W V1.3 (latest release) there was a new optimizer built into the system for text searches and one should use LIKE and not the = or other relative operators when searching for text. It could be that this also got into the Amiga release. Ciao, Neil
#31656From: Loren A. BuschDec 14, 1991 12:49 PM
I found a long time ago that LIKE provides better results than ' = ' on text, but now seem to have to always end mask with * when I didn't have to before. Seems to bee seeing all charcters in field, even trailing blanks. Not a big complaint in this, I was just trying to warn others that SBPro4/Amiga is not as forgiving as 3.0 (translates: Wont let you be a sloppy in you code)