From: Dan Nelson Date: June 30 2006 9:48pm Subject: Re: Show tables replacement List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/199544 Message-Id: <20060630214857.GA4915@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In the last episode (Jun 30), Ed Reed said: > Is there a Select statement I can use to get table names so that I > could use other Select statement syntax on the results? > > What I'd like to do is this, > > SHOW Replace(TABLES, 'tbl','') Like 'tbl%'; > > But this doesn't work so I need a Select statement that can do the > same thing. SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables; -- Dan Nelson dnelson@stripped