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plusrelo
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Is it possible to use the logical relation "is like" in a define statement? For example, "IF ACCOUNT IS LIKE '3$$-$$' THEN...." I can't seem to get it to work, but maybe my syntax is not correct. I've tried it with and without the word "like".


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IF EDIT(ACCOUNT,'9') EQ '3' THEN


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Francis Mariani
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Be careful which MASK characters you use.

DEFINE FILE CAR
TEST1/A3 = IF COUNTRY LIKE '__A%' THEN 'YES' ELSE 'NO';
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY
TEST1
END


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mask

Is an alphanumeric or text character string you supply. There are two wildcard characters that you can use in the mask: the underscore (_) indicates that any character in that position is acceptable; the percent sign (%) allows any following sequence of zero or more characters.


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Reference: Restrictions on Masking Characters
The wildcard characters dollar sign ($) and dollar sign with an asterisk ($*), which are used with IS operators, are treated as literals with LIKE operators.

Masking with the characters $ and $* is not supported for compound WHERE phrases that use the AND or OR logical operators.


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Thanks!


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