At 08:51 AM 16-08-02 +0000, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>thank you for this response. But how can I enforce my users not to use
>* for wildcards, or how can I show my own error message window if they
>do?

OK, I've now looked up the wildcard-parsing code in IB_Parse.pas and it
seems to require an escape character. You can use any of * _ % or ?
for your wildcard as long as you escape them, e.g. (from what I can see)

(searching for strings starting with 'Silb') Silb\*

If you don't like '\' as your EscapeCharacter, you can set it to something
different (single character only) in the EscapeCharacter property of
TIB_Connection.

If that doesn't work, come back here and cry foul.

Sorry I didn't have an instant useful answer. I never use this style of
searching - I always utilise the incremental searching.


regards,
Helen Borrie (TeamIBO Support)

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