From: Claudia M. Castaneda Date: March 25 1999 7:23pm Subject: invoque a user defined program from MYSQL List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/967 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We want to do string comparison using SQL. For instance: A user asks to return all the strings that have 'asmmsg' at the beginning. The database has strings like: asmmsgiokl valid ------ asmmsgmlsyui valid ------ asmmsbtusd not valid -----* Is it possible to do this with SQL? I have a routine to do this type of comparison in C; would it be possible to embed it in MYSQL? --- Claudia M. Castaneda KT-Tech, Incorporated 9801 Greenbelt Rd. Suite 314 Lanham MD 20706 USA 301 552 2411 Fax 301 552 2638