Wild Card/Generic retrieval

[Chris Sharman]

Deskin, Bob wrote:
> 
> SELECT IF MATCHPATTERN(TRUNCATE(partno),"@th")
> 
> The TRUNCATE removes trailing spaces, otherwise you'd have to match them.

I would have used the simpler 'matchpattern(partno,"@th *")' - is the 
truncate more efficient ?

Chris



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