Interstage Shunsaku Data Manager Application Development Guide - Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000/ Microsoft(R) Windows Server(TM) 2003 - - UNIX -

B.3.7 Compatible Format

If "1(use compatible format queries)" is specified for the ExtendedQuery execution parameter in the system environment file, the following differences will occur with conditional expressions.

Escape Characters

The characters in the following table must be preceded by the escape character '\' when they are specified in strings.

For example, if 'abc\\' is specified, the search target string will be 'abc\'. The following characters must be preceded by '\'.

[Table B-7 Characters that must be preceded by the Escape Character]

Character	Specification method
.	\.
\	\\
"	\"
'	\'

Patterns

The following figure shows the format for patterns.

[Figure B-17 Pattern Format]

Ellipses

Ellipses '...' are specified in order to search for strings that contain any number (including zero) of unknown characters.