At 15:21 +0200 1/18/03, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>But I know that the _ character is used as a wildcard for any single
>character.
>wouldn't it be considered it as a wild card when using it in a column name?
Depends on the context. If you issue a
SHOW COLUMNS FROM mytable LIKE 'my_col'
statement, then 'my_col' will match my_col, but also myxcol, my0col, etc.
You need to write it like
SHOW COLUMNS FROM mytable LIKE 'my\_col'
to match my_col *only*.
But in the context of other statements that do not interpret a name
as a pattern, _ won't be taken as a wildcard.
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Keith C. Ivey" <keith@stripped>
>To: "MySQL" <mysql@stripped>
>Cc: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@stripped>
>Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 8:31 PM
>Subject: Re: Column names
>
>
>On 17 Jan 2003, at 16:40, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>
>> In MySQL I know that I need to put the column names between `` in some
>> cases if they contain a % or an _ sign in it. Please tell me what sign
>> can I use to link 2 words in a column without needing to include that
>> column name between ``.
>>
>> Can I use a - (dash) sign, or it might be considered in some cases a
>> minus operator?
>
>You shouldn't need `` around column names that contain _. Underscore
>is pretty standard for separating words in a name.
>
>With dash, you'd have to use ``, because - is the minus operator.
>
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