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  • November 11, 2010 at 9:23 pm

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    Well, as I mentioned, "YACHT AUSTRALIA [III]" is finding a match on "US". This is because you are using this bit of code: when patindex ('%US%',Term)>0

    then 'US'

    The "%" is a wild card, so it is saying to find the phrase "US" anywhere in the expression being searched. Remove the leading "%", and it will now find a match only on the expressions what start with "US".

    Wayne
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