Like "[18]*" (1 Viewer)

[jesseb]

What is this saying? Anything like 18*?

 

[dcx693]

Sounds syntactically incorrect. Usually, brackets are used around object names. You can't just use the asterisk character with it without an operator.

 

[jesseb]

It works. I think it is saying those numbers 1 or 8.

 

[dcx693]

You're right. Where is it being used? It could be a criteria line from a query. An expression like this:
Like "[A-F]*"
will give you all strings beginning with the letters A through F.

I'm not sure what Like "[18]*" is supposed to give though. I tried it on a numeric field and it returned everything. I then tried it on a string field and it returned everything that began with the numbers 1-8. Strange, because I'd expect
Like "[1-8]*"
to do that.

Anybody have other ideas?