Thanks. It is not at all clear from the Query documentation that you can
say NOT MAT. It seemed like you could say only MAT.

At 01:30 PM 6/15/2001 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>Yes it is...
>
>You can do something like:
> >FIND NAME NOT MATCHING "???b?*"
>
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>Is it possible, using pattern matching in Query, to find records where a
>particular character postion in a field does not contain a particular
>character, such as a blank?
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