On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 04:47:43PM -0400, Daniel Whitener wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply! Actually I read through that page before and I > tried it and still nothing.... > > mysql> SELECT ID FROM emails WHERE MATCH(h_subject, body) AGAINST ('V000*'); > Empty set (0.00 sec) > > any good reason why that wouldn't work?
Yes, you need to be doing a boolean full-text search to use the operators like '*'. Your query would look like: SELECT ID FROM emails WHERE MATCH(h_subject, body) AGAINST ('V000*' IN BOOLEAN MODE); Note that this requires MySQL 4.0.1 or later. Jim Winstead MySQL AB -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]