Paul Dubois helped me on this: Check page 520 of his book.
REGEXP "[MWF]" matches all I need everything inside the [...]
(brackets).
Thank you again Paul.
That problem fixed now moving on to the next one.
Douglas
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Computer Consultant
Fine & Applied Arts
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-6549 (office)
828-262-6312 (fax)
-----Original Message-----
From: Gurhan Ozen [mailto:c-gurhan.ozen@stripped]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:24 PM
To: Douglas Brantz; mysql@stripped
Subject: RE: Please Help with Pattern Matching
Doug,
MySql is doing what it is supposed to... If you specify '%MWF%' it will
only
select the values with the string literal 'MWF' in it. If you would like
to
match all the rows that have either M or W or F in it, then use a query
like
:
select schdays from courses where schdays LIKE "%M%" OR LIKE "%W%" OR
LIKE
"%F%";
This will return every row that has either M or W or F in the schdays
field.
Gurhan
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Brantz [mailto:brantzdr@stripped]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:59 PM
To: mysql@stripped
Subject: Please Help with Pattern Matching
I have a big problem with pattern matching;
Why does the first example work like this I need to find everything with
MWF in it and I only get the 1 entry? Is there a way I can make this
work.
mysql> select schdays from courses where schdays LIKE "%MWF%";
+---------+
| schdays |
+---------+
| MWF |
+---------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select schdays from courses where schdays LIKE "%M%";
+---------+
| schdays |
+---------+
| MWF |
| MW |
| MW |
| M |
| M |
+---------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Thanks in advance,
Douglas
--
Douglas R. Brantz
Computer Consultant
Fine & Applied Arts
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-6549 (office)
828-262-6312 (fax)
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