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dwoolaver75
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 Posted - 2009-06-19 : 10:16:53
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| I had a situation where I needed to find all of the records in a varchar column that contained an underscore _. Since the _ is also a wildcard character I could not use like '%_%', it returned no results. I wound up doing the following and it seemed to work ok:select * from items where replace(item_no,'_','@') like '%@%'Is there a better way to do this? I'm just curious. |
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
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Posted - 2009-06-19 : 12:27:43
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select * from items where item_no like '%[_]%'
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dwoolaver75
Starting Member
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Posted - 2009-06-19 : 12:49:09
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| Excellent! Returned the same number of records. I should have thought of that. |
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seaching for underscore _ ?