Re: Pattern maching question

From: Inna Zelmanova <izelmanova_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:16:41 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <10623.117307@fatcity.com>

Hi, I think you can try this:

select contact_name from contact
where substr(contact_name,1,1) in
('0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9');

inna
--- Glenn Travis <Glenn.Travis_at_wcom.com> wrote:
> How can I get all the contacts which start with
> numbers?
> PLEASE NOTE: contact_name is a character field.
>
> select contact_name from contact
> where contact_name like '[0-9]%'
>
> does not work (like other dbms...)
>
> My workaround is;
>
> select contact_name from contact
> where contact_name < 'A'
>
> but I want to know the proper syntax for the first
> query.
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