Richard Brooksby,
can you forward the solution as you have it now? I am very interested in how this question turns out.
joe
>
> Thanks, Tom, I can now see why the planner is making the choice it
> does. I suppose in theory if I could guarantee that "test.filename"
> didn't contain '%' then the planner could do better, if it was clever
> enough.
>
> Do you have a suggestion for how I achieve what I want? My current
> solution is a function with nested FOR loops, but it seems a great
> shame to have to write it all out by hand.
>
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