Hi Mark

> So, here is my plea for help.  I have a predicate of the form: "<character 
> string> BEGINSWITH path".  In other words, I am searching entities that 
> possess a (string) property "path" to look for one whose path is a prefix of 
> some string (which is inserted into the predicate via the 
> fetch-request-template variable substitution).  This fetch executes just fine 
> on an XML store.  The same fetch on an SQL store yields:  unimplemented SQL 
> generation for predicate ("/Volumes/MacHD/Applications/Utilities" BEGINSWITH 
> path).

You need to think about how a predicate would work against a SQL store. The 
left-hand side of the expression cannot be anything other than the name of a 
column or a path to the name of a column.

Have you thought of using either "path LIKE ..." with wildcards, or "path 
MATCHES ..." with a regex expression?

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Predicates/Articles/pSyntax.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001795
 is the page that discusses these ideas, look for the String Comparisons 
section.

Joanna

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Joanna Carter
Carter Consulting

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