RE: SQL - "contains" function?

LOCATE should do it... In use, it returns the location in the string where the pattern value was found. If return was zero, the pattern was not in the source field...

Hth,
-Eric DeLong

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Timothy Adair
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:21 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: SQL - "contains" function?

I've searched the archives and Googled it, but so far, no soap.

I'm using STRSQL to try to run a basic report, and I need some kind of
"Contains" function. In simplified form, here is what I'm trying to do.

File has 2 fields:
FIELD5 (5 char. alpha)
FIELD100 (100 char. alpha)


I want a report of all records where the string in FIELD5 is not contained
anywhere within the string in FIELD100 (in the same record).

Sounds simple, right?

Apparently (best I can determine), there is no SQL function to use in the
Where clause. Or am I wrong?

LIKE doesn't help.

I know I can write a quick RPG program to do this, but if I (an SQL-newbie)
can learn a new technique, it will make my day.

Any thoughts?

TIA for any and all responses.


~TA~