Includes Conditional

[DonP]

I know I can use INCLUDES in an SQL statement, but is there a non-SQL version that can function like it in a conventional VBScript conditional? That is, I want to have a condition that is met when only part of a string matches, like:

[tt]If session("Item1&quot includes "ABCD" Then . . .[/tt]

when session("Item1&quot is actually ABCDEFG

Is there such a thing? Don
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[kim1234]

Try the inStr() function, e.g.:
inStr(stringtosearch,stringtofind)

You example could read like this:

If inStr(session(&quot;Item1&quot;),&quot;ABCD&quot;)<>0 Then

The inStr() function returns an integer value representing the starting(character) position of one string ("ABCD&quot in another (session("Item1&quot). As long as the value returned is not zero, then stringtofind was found in stringtosearch.

 

[DonP]

Thanks! That's exactly what I needed. Don
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