How to find the text with % in it.

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How to find the text with % in it.

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Shadab Shah
Starting Member

23 Posts

Posted - 2012-07-23 : 01:55:03

Hi,

Suppose following are the content of my table,

empname
abc%def
xyzpqr
mnopqr
st%vwx

i would like to fire a query which would give me the output as

empname
abc%def
st%vwx

webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

8781 Posts

Posted - 2012-07-23 : 02:20:39

try:

where empname like '%[%]%'

No, you're never too old to Yak'n'Roll if you're too young to die.

Bill_C
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

299 Posts

Posted - 2012-07-23 : 02:22:43

I think it's something like:-

SELECT empname from table1 WHERE empname LIKE '%[%]%'

Bill_C
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

299 Posts

Posted - 2012-07-23 : 02:23:07

oops, beat me to it - lol

Any special characters being searched on go inside square brackets.

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2012-07-23 : 10:55:44

also


SELECT empname from table1 WHERE empname LIKE '%!%%' ESCAPE '!';

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