RE: Pattern maching question

If you have OWA, the owa_pattern package is very good for this stuff. I don't know why they haven't made that one into a regular dbms_ or utl_ package yet. If you can, steal that package!

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Travis [mailto:Glenn.Travis_at_wcom.com] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 6:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Pattern maching question

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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Author: Glenn Travis
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