Ed Reed wrote:
> I hope someone can give me a suggestion on this.
>
> I'd like to find records in a table where a specific field only contains a number.
>
> For example,
> Select Field1 as f
> from table1 as t
> where lcase(t.f) not like in
> ('a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z')
>
> This obviously doesn't work or I wouldn't be asking the question. In this example
> field1 is a varchar(25) field and it is normally appropriate for it to contain data that
> has numeric characters and alpha characters. Examples of valid data in this field are
> '456987','142154','200145C1','954xxx','H 1231','My Test', ......etc. In my query above I'm
> trying to find the records where there is only a six digit numeric value and no others.
>
> Thanks for any advice
>
how about "^[0-9]+$"?
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