BeginsWith Element

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The BeginsWith element searches for a string at the start of a column that holds Text or Note field type values.

Syntax

<BeginsWith>
   <FieldRef Name = "Field_Name"/>
   <Value Type = "Field_Type"/>
</BeginsWith>

Element Relationships

Parent Elements Child Elements
And, Or, Where FieldRef, Value

Example

The following example uses the BeginsWith element within a string that is assigned to the Query property to return the titles of items within a list where a Journal column begins with "City".

SPWeb mySite = SPControl.GetContextWeb(Context);

SPList list = mySite.Lists["List_Name"];

SPQuery query = new SPQuery();
query.Query = "<Where><BeginsWith><FieldRef Name="Journal"/>" +
   "<Value Type="Note">City</Value></BeginsWith></Where>";

SPListItemCollection myItems = list.GetItems(query);

foreach (SPListItem item in myItems)
{
   Label1.Text += item["Title"] + "<BR>";
}