From: Peter Brawley
Date: July 23 2008 2:20pm
Subject: Re: WHERE .... IN
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 >A text field -Lets call it 'field1'- contains datas seperated by 
commas(,)
 > like this (123,5764,8795,9364,11,232,.....

The solution is to normalise the data.

PB


Ali Deniz EREN wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem as below:
>
> A text field -Lets call it 'field1'- contains datas seperated by
> commas(,) like this (123,5764,8795,9364,11,232,..... and go on) And so
> my lines like these:
>
> id      title      filed1
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 1      title1      123,576412
> 2      title2      123
> 3      title3      576412,8795,123
> 4      title4      123
> 5      title5      576412,1164,12,232
> ..      ...          ...
> ..      ...          ...
>
> I am looking for lines which includes the matched value within the
> field1 seperated case. For example:
>
> "SELECT id, title, field1 FROM mesaj WHERE 123  IN (field1)"
>
> result is.
> 1      title1      123,576412
> 2      title2      123
> 4      title4      123
>
> But I want it to match with third one.
> 3      title3      576412,8795,123
>
> Because it have a 123 at the end. But It does not! :(
>
> Is there another way to do this. LIKE doesn't work because
>
> "SELECT id, title, field1 FROM mesaj WHERE field1 LIKE 12" returns
> many result which is not my intention.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>