CONTAINS STRING

hi friends,

i have one urgent issue.

in my internal table, i hav one field status with value 'PREL'.

i have one more record with status value 'REL'.

so, the problem here is - when i want to display the record containing value 'REL',

the record with value 'PREL' is also getting picked up.

here, all the other records with statuses 'CRTD', 'MSPT' are getting deleted.

the code i'm using is:

delete t_final where status ns l_status.

Please suggest me some solution for this..

An early reply could be of great help and deserve great reward.

Thanks,

Praveen