I have added a custom field to accounts table named as "assigned franchisee".I need to fetch records from  accounts  that have a value in " assigned franchisee" field ( assigned franchisee is not empty ).

I have written the following method and it seems to work correctly but due to there is  no way to get the number of the records with this specified condition I am not sure about the correction functionality of this code,

Please guide me and check it and tell me if this is right. I highlighted the condition.

https://crm.zoho.com/crm/private/xml/Accounts/getSearchRecords?authtoken=TOKEN&scope=crmapi&newFormat=1&selectColumns=Accounts(ACCOUNTID,Account Owner,Phone,Assigned Franchisee,Account Name)&searchCondition=(Assigned Franchisee|contains|*)&lastModifiedTime=2013-09-23%2011:09:23&fromIndex=1&toIndex=201

Thanks