On 5/31/03 12:20 PM, "Eric Schult" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> In an aside, though, I'm finding that "show every record whose cell "x"
> is "whatever"" will also return records whose cell "x" is
> "whatever_plus_suffix". I'm not using the "contains" modifier, or the
> "begins with" modifier. I'm using "is" or "is equal to" or "=" and none
> of those modifiers return the correct (exact) set of records.
That's always been the case in FMP, as I recall. It interprets "whose ...is"
as if it were "...starts with" - it must not look further than the nth
character where n is the length of the search string. You could probably add
in another filter for its length being n.
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Paul Berkowitz