Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtune!codas!ufcsv!beach.cis.ufl.edu!esr From: esr@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Edward Roepe) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Dbase III question Message-ID: <9762@ufcsv.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 13 Dec 87 20:36:04 GMT References: <230@ka3adu.UUCP> Sender: news@ufcsv.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: esr@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Edward Roepe) Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 18 Keywords: dbase Summary: Use "string" $ variable The command is: string1 $ string2 where: string1 is found in string2 examples: list first,last for "123" $ street && find 123 in street address list first,last for "SW" $ street && find SW in street address note: I sometimes will use upper functions on one or both strings if I suspect there will not be a match because of mixed case.