At 1:26 PM -0500 12/6/00, John Watkins wrote:
>Frequently, an email will bounce for anyone of several reasons. When
>it does, it's necessary to find the associated record using the
>email address as the search information.
>
>I've tried to search on the email address. Whenever I enter an email
>address and click "find," the message "no records match this
>request" appears. I've tried it with several different email
>addresses which I know to be in the database.
>
>So, I started to experiment. Find works OK with a partial email
>address. It does not work when the "@" character is included.
>Apparently the problem is the "@" character.
>
>Is this the general experience?
That's a FileMaker issue. the @ character is used in Find for "one
character" so it doesn't work right when included in the text. Try
the find using
="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
enclosing the address in quotes gets the @ interpreted correctly
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Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338
