Thank you Michael for your answer. On 9/19/07, Michael Dykman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The whitespace counts... try LIKE '%johnie%' (or better '_johnie_' .. > the underscorematches any single character). I want to match '(johnie)' and not 'johnies' or 'aljohnier', what it's the query does with '_'. If I include whitespaces, I match only the word 'johnie'.
But I've got some texts like: * (johnie) * johnie-sullivan * johnie.sullivan and I want to find them. I suppose the right way is create another condition: firstname LIKE '%(johnie %' OR '% johnie)%' OR '%(johnie)%' OR '%.johnie %' ... > Bear in mind that, with > a LIKE variable as the first element in your string, this query will > do a full table scan every time. If you get a lot of records in here, > that's going to kill you. You're right, but I didn't find another better way. What do you think it's better? > > - michael > > > On 9/19/07, thomas Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I've got this table in mySQL: > > > > item 1: > > -- firstname: John (Johnie) > > -- phone: 555-600-200 > > > > item 2: > > -- firstname: Peter > > -- phone: 555-300-400 > > > > I created this SQL query to find 'johnie': > > ------------------------ > > SELECT friends.id FROM friends WHERE ((friends.firstname LIKE '% > > johnie %' OR friends.firstname LIKE 'johnie %' OR friends.firstname > > LIKE '% johnie' OR friends.firstname LIKE 'johnie' OR friends.phone > > LIKE '% johnie %' OR friends.phone LIKE 'johnie %' OR friends.phone > > LIKE '% johnie' OR friends.phone LIKE 'johnie')) ORDER BY > > friends.firstname LIMIT 0, 9999 > > ------------------------ > > > > But it doesn't match anything, because it's considers "(johnie)" as a > > single word. Is there any way to make mySQL consider "(johnie)" as > > "johnie". > > > > I know I can create another condition within my query: > > firstname LIKE '(johnie)' OR firstname LIKE '(johnie%' OR firstname > > LIKE '%johnie)' > > but I also might consider other characters like ' " - * > > > > Any suggestion? > > > > -- > > MySQL General Mailing List > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > - michael dykman > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - All models are wrong. Some models are useful. > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
