help poor at answering "simple" ?'s. "can use wildcard w instr?"

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can I use wildcards with the instr function? help does not cover this. If
so, what is the correct syntax/usage? Thank you.

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[Dirk Goldgar]

can I use wildcards with the instr function? help does not cover
this. If so, what is the correct syntax/usage? Thank you.

No, you can't. You may be able to use a regular expression object to
do it, but that requires an external object library.

 

[John Vinson]

can I use wildcards with the instr function? help does not cover this. If
so, what is the correct syntax/usage? Thank you.

No, you cannot.


John W. Vinson[MVP]