On Thursday 07 December 2006 14:57, Ed Reed wrote: > Can someone help me with this?
quick hack, but it works from what you've stated: mysql> create table num_test (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, value VARCHAR(256)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.07 sec) mysql> insert into num_test (value) VALUES ('N400'),('400'),('300'),('N500'); Query OK, 4 rows affected (0.03 sec) Records: 4 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql> SELECT REPLACE(value,'N','') as value_num, value FROM num_test WHERE POSITION('N' IN value); +-----------+-------+ | value_num | value | +-----------+-------+ | 400 | N400 | | 500 | N500 | +-----------+-------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) -- Chris White PHP Programmer Interfuel -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]