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kitten
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sample code below:
TABLE FILE EMPINFO
PRINT
PIN
NAME
WHERE NAME NE MISSING;
WHERE NAME NE 'M%';
END

I've even tried WHERE NAME NOT LIKE 'M%', but it doesn't work. The rows with the NAME fields do not appear but the names starting with 'M' do. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

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Francis Mariani
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How about this?

TABLE FILE EMPDATA
PRINT
PIN
LASTNAME
FIRSTNAME   

BY LASTNAME NOPRINT
WHERE LASTNAME IS-NOT MISSING;
WHERE NOT LASTNAME LIKE 'M%';
END


Francis


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kitten
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Actually it should be an OR.
WHERE (NAME NE MISSING) OR (NAME NOT LIKE 'M%');

I tried
WHERE (NAME IS-NOT MISSING) OR (NOT NAME LIKE 'M%')
It didn't work so I think I have to create a flag.


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Francis Mariani
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An OR will give you all names because the names that begin with M will fall in the first bucket and the names that do not begin with M will in the second bucket...


Francis


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FrankDutch
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So what about AND instead of OR




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kitten
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You're right the didn't work. The OR didn't work nor did the FLAG. I used your previous code (WHERE LASTNAME IS-NOT MISSING;
WHERE NOT LASTNAME LIKE 'M%'Wink, the NULL VALUES are still coming up.


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kitten
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The AND didn't work.


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eric.woerle
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the webfocus wildcard is 
$*


So you can say 
 FIELD EQ 'XXX$*'


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Francis Mariani
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The wildcard characters for screening on masked fields with:

LIKE and NOT LIKE operators are % and _. The percent allows any following sequence of zero or more characters. The underscore indicates that any character in that position is acceptable. The LIKE operator is supported in expressions that are used to derive temporary fields with either the DEFINE or COMPUTE command.

IS (or EQ) and IS-NOT (or NE) operators are $ and $*. The dollar sign indicates that any character in that position is acceptable. The $* is shorthand for writing a sequence of dollar signs to fill the end of the mask without specifying a length. This combination can only be used at the end of the mask.
In IF clauses and those WHERE clauses that can be translated into one or more IF clauses, you can treat the $ and $* characters as normal characters rather than wildcards by issuing the SET EQTEST=EXACT command.



Francis


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Rigel7
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Will this work for you?

SET MISSING=ON
...
WHERE NOT (NAME IS MISSING OR NAME LIKE 'M%');


The SQLTRACE (Oracle) translates to

WHERE (T1."NAME" NOT LIKE 'M%' AND T1."NAME" IS NOT NULL);

-- Dan in Omaha

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