Thanks Mark for clarifying.

Kind regards
Bhavbhuti

On 16/02/2013 08:58 pm, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>
> On 16-2-2013 15:52, venussoftop wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > When using LIKE I can use the 'String%' to look for partial matches.
> Not so when I want to use IN ('String%', 'VariousString%') instead I
> have to use 2 LIKEs
> >
> > Is there something I missed for using IN ()? That would allow me to
> use partial matches? The IN keeps the query simpler and shorter than
> multiple LIKEs IMO.
>
> You didn't miss anything. You need to see item IN (itemlist) to mean
> "does itemlist contain a value equal to item": it does not support
> partial matches! You either need to use multiple LIKE or STARTING WITH
> statements, or use the regular expressions introduced in 2.5 with
> SIMILAR TO, although multiple LIKEs are probably more efficient.
>
> Mark
> --
> Mark Rotteveel
>
>

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Thanking you.

Yours Faithfully,
For Venus Software Operations
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