Re: Like and extra 000's
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RogueIT wrote:
>In tableA.upc I have a field that holds 697807070369 for a value
>in tableB.upc I have a field that holds the information but has leading zeros.
>Also not all items have the same amount of leading zeros.
>How can I query those fields to show me the information for tableB.upc?
Assuming those are all TEXT fields, this might so what you
want:
tableB.upc Like "*" & tableA.upc
but if tableA contains a code like 56789 and tableB has one
like 123456789, it will still match.
If that kind of combination could occur, then you will need
to write your own compare function.
--
Marsh
MVP [MS Access]
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