I am sitting here with both my Crystal 8.5 and my SQL guides out and still can not find the answers I am looking for...

I know that if I want to block an item that starts with a certain phrase I can use the code
Code:
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not({item.itm_desc} startswith ["cement","interpore","collagraft","mesh"])
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... however, my problem is that the items that I want to block do not START the description... the words are within the description - just not at the beginning of it . I know it is still possible to block items based on those words, but I can not remember how to code the report to do so...

Also - just to make life a little more interesting - there is 1 item that begins with the word "mesh" that i DO want to show up on this report. is there coding that says something to the effect of "ignore all items beginning with "mesh" EXCEPT item # 54446" ?


Does anyone have any ideas? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...