Thanks to all for the suggestions!!
Turns out, if I use a regular expression instead of a text compare I get the desired
result!! :)
Thanks!
Erica
Gerald Clark wrote:
> You are doing a text compare, and they have to match exactly,
> including leading zeros after the dots.
>
> You might look at storing them as integers. MySQL has to functions
> INET_ATON() and INET_NTOA() to convert them back and forth to strings.
>
> Erica B. Tanner wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone. I am new to this list and hope it's the right one for
> > my question. This may be really obvious, but I can't seem to figure it
> > out...so here's the problem:
> >
> > I have a table that stores network incident report information, IP
> > address, dates, type of incident, report name, etc. I am trying to
> > query the table for a specific ip address that's in the "source_ip"
> > field. I can see that the record is there when I query all of the
> > records, but when I query for one specific ip, I get the empty set
> > result! :(
> >
> > Here is my query
> >
> > select * from IDReport where source_ip="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx";
> >
> > The field type is char(16). Any ideas why mysql is not finding that
> > record??
> >
> > I appreciate ANY help on this matter!!! :)
> > Thanks,
> > Erica
> >
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> > Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
> > Advanced Computation Technology Group
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> >
> >
> >
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