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sayandutt
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:02 pm
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I want to have a search like this:

If the user enter *joy, the code sould display all names starting with anything but must end with joy. for eg.

ajoy
anujoy
sujoy

similarly, i want to have these features also

joy*
am*joy-->this will display all names starting with am and ending with joy
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enrico-sorichetti

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:22 pm
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What You are describing is a simpler form of "regular expression" matching

If You described more thoroughly Your environment somebody might come up ...
with suggestions
rather then guesses
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superk

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:46 pm
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Nothing comes to mind. It looks to me like it's a "write it yourself" process.
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