Alberto Berti wrote:

Tim Cook wrote:

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Just to clarify. Chris W's comment that the vocabulary strips out the digits.

It seems to only do so when there is no other characters adjacent in the property. If there are alphabetic characters but separated by whitespace it will remove the digits. If they are separated by a hyphen it will not remove the digits but will remove the hyphen. Also in my case of the DOB it removes the '/' separating the elements.

And you can't do the same work with the value in the search form? e.g. i you are searching against 1960/03/* why you don't strip the '/' character before passing the value to the catalog for the search? so u do effectively a search against '196003*'. Maybe this can work...

Actually, I was incorrect. It doesn't strip the slashes. But that's not the issue. The problem is that if you enter digits into a string property they don't get entered into a globbing vocabulary. They must have either a character appended or prepended to the string of digits to prevent them from being stripped. -- Tim Cook, President -- Free Practice Management,Inc. | http://www.FreePM.com Office: (901) 884-4126 "Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances." - Bill Clinton