Help dynamic query with DBMS_SQL package

I get an ORA-00911: invalid character from Oracle 7.3 with this statement: dbms_sql.parse(cursor_handle, 'select client_name from clients where client_name LIKE JON%', DBMS_SQL.V7);

but this one works just fine:
dbms_sql.parse(cursor_handle, 'select client_name from clients where client_name = JONES', DBMS_SQL.V7);

Thanks,

   -Greg- Received on Mon Aug 16 1999 - 23:32:40 CEST