Does not contain ISSUE

[cephal0n]

Hi All!

I have a field named: Title,now I want to filter the data with a specific match.
In Excel when you set the whole sheet1 to data>filter>autofilter, excel offers an Custom AutoFilter window
where you can select various condition. I noticed that one of the choices is the does not contain option
I was wondering is this possible to use in sql, aside from LIKE and BETWEEN bec. I'm dealing with long titles and
would like to include the condition:

SELECT *
FROM Table1
WHERE Table1.Title does not contain = jkl 

thanks in advance!

[Stewart Ross]

Hi cephal0n. There is more than one way to do this. One way is to use the following negated Like condition:

SELECT *
FROM Table1
WHERE Table1.Title Not Like "*sometext*"

The wildcard characters ("*") are necessary for Like to find the characters anywhere in the string.

If you wanted to have an Access query which pops up a message box to ask the user what text to exclude you can include a parameter within the query criterion on the Title field:

Not Like "*" & [Enter text to exclude] & "*"

-Stewart

[cephal0n]

hi Stewart!

Thank you very much for answering! everything seems to make sense now :)