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QUESTION ABOUT VARIOUS WHERE STATEMENTS

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June 06, 2008, 11:24 AM
Tomsweb
QUESTION ABOUT VARIOUS WHERE STATEMENTS
DOES ANYONE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

"WHERE fld IN"

AND

"WHERE fld CONTAINS"

?

Thanks! Idea


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June 06, 2008, 12:25 PM
susannah
CONTAINS is searching the contents of the field for a supplied character string
IN is matching the entire contents of the variable to a file which contains a list of acceptable values for that field.
heres some tech info

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