Sadly I have to either export out the data anyway to SQL which was what I was thinking to do as the system is an older  INFORMIX release or work...

Oh snap, I caught my problem with sqlfiddle. It didn't like the # sign. It works awesome !!! Again, simply awesome.

First, mind blowing. That someone would help out in such a way is phenomenal. Truly appreciate it. I have been testing this on:

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!6/d6f3d6/2

because the source...

You are correct. I am interested in any pairing that occurs. With all of the possible sizes and combinations I wanted to keep the post as brief as possible but...

I need to identify all the IDs that that have a letter "I" in one of their size combinations. Then determine if for that size combination containing the letter "I"...