Re: Ignoring spaces in a comparison

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From: Wayne Niddery (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:41

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"Russell" <russell@removethis.smxi.com> wrote in message 
news:47e102ef@newsgroups.borland.com...
> is there a simple way of ignoring spaces in a select, sort of
>
> WHERE IgnoreSpaces("MYFIELD") = 'MYVALUE'
>
> or is there a simple LIKE pattern that will achieve this effect? Not 
> really worried about performance on this one.


If the spaces are strictly leading and/or trailing, then you will find the 
value with:

    WHERE "MYFIELD" LIKE '%MYVALUE%'

-- 
Wayne Niddery - TeamB (www.teamb.com)
Winwright, Inc. (www.winwright.ca)

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