Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > Singhals fed this fish to the penguins: > > > theory, the ?ieber would work. As you say, though, it wouldn't > > find > > <blink><blink> Guess I hadn't considered the wild cards > would work on single characters at the beginning of a name (I've > been using xxx* style wild cards). Uhhh ... I thought that was what you were saying? (g) Anyway -- the ?xxx doesn't always work, sometimes the clever programmer insists on a real letter there, but if it DOES work, it's invaluable. I know it doesn't work with the 1901 British, but then Q*Q ... Cheryl singhals@erols.com