I have a sharepoint 2007 list in which there is a column 'EmpID' which contains employee ids in this format: 12345;6789;121212
I need to find if 12345 is present in EmpID column. If i use caml query using asp.net It does not give me any result for only "12345".
If i enter whole data "12345;6789;121212" then only it gives me result. Please Help. I nees to search only 12345
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("URL"))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
SPList List = web.Lists["List Name"];
SPQuery query = new SPQuery();
query.Query = "<Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='EMP_x0020_ID' /><Value Type='Text'>" + TextBox1.Text + "</Value></Eq></Where><OrderBy><FieldRef Name='Title'/></OrderBy>";
SPListItemCollection items = List.GetItems(query);
DataTable dt = items.GetDataTable();
if (dt==null)
{
Label1.Text = "No data";
}
else
{
foreach (DataRow r in dt.Rows)
{
Label1.Text += r["Title"];
}
}
}
}
it was so easy... use contains instead of EQ