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From: swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( EVENSONG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: DBMan Programming question
Summary: How to reference a feild
Message-ID: <6118@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 02:34:51 GMT
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
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I am about to delve into the world of DBman and DataBase III+ style programming

I am hoping to be able to do a search of a couple of various feilds in my
database.  I have set up a couple text feilds that are made up of letters
and/or ?'s.  I have a list of questions that I ask of the people that I am
adding to the database, and if they apply I put a letter, if they do not,
I put a question mark (I did this, as that is one of the wildcards they
mentioned)

a finished string might look like       : 'AB?D?F?H??KLM?O???ST??WX?Z'
for what of course would be complete as : 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'

I am going to be writing a program then to find the closest match(es)
sort of like a dating service, but not quite.  Anyone have any suggestions
on how to go about this?

swood

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