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searching for an underscore in a LIKE statement [message #371147] Thu, 07 September 2000 05:10 Go to next message
Tom
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Registered: June 1998
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Due to the fact that '_' is a reserved character in a LIKE statement, how do I actually search for it?

Is there an escape character that I can use?

Nice one,

Tom.

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Re: searching for an underscore in a LIKE statement [message #371148 is a reply to message #371147] Thu, 07 September 2000 07:43 Go to previous message
Thierry Van der Auwera
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Registered: January 2000
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Hallo Tom,

You can do this very simple, see example.

SELECT *
FROM tab1
WHERE col1 LIKE '%\_%' ESCAPE '\';

This will return every record where the field col1 contains a '_' in the text.

Hope this is what your looking for.
When not, you can e-mail me.

Greetings,

Thierry

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