Re: Using the MATCHES keyword (but outside a WHERE clause)
Posted in 1996
Colonel Panic — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
In article <4kbs0p$gko@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Colin McGrath <cmm@trac3000.ueci.com> wrote: |Is it likely that the MATCHES keyword will continue to be able to be used |to search for a substring within a string variable? The 4gl program listed |below displays the proper message ("found" or "NOT found") when MATCHES |is used to search a string for a substring. It works both in compiled and |p-code. It's a documented operator. (See, for example, pp. 3-326 of the I4GL Reference Version 6.0) -- (c) 1996 Alan Denney aland@informix.com "San Francisco is not a baseball town. Never was, never will be." -- Willie Brown, to Examiner columnist Rob Morse, 1992