Bobby Heid
bheid at appdevgrp.com
Fri Jun 24 08:29:40 CDT 2005
Hey, I have a search screen for an app that has several combo boxes that when the user clicks the Find button, it builds a SQL query based upon the criteria that the users have selected. The user can also use wild cards in the combo boxes such as 'Carlton*'. Since they can use wild cards, I use LIKE when building the SQL statement. I got an email from a user today asking why a given project search was returning no records. I looked at the data and this is what they were searching for: 'Carlton [D]'. I suspected the data so I removed the brackets from around the 'D' and the query worked fine. My question is, is the bracket a special character? Are there other characters that I need to watch out for? I know about the wild card characters '*', '?', and the '#' character. Thanks, Bobby