Re: Check for numeric values

2013-10-08 Thread Mike Blezien
.com/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - Original Message - From: Sukhjinder K. Narula To: Mike Blezien Cc: MySQL List Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 8:08 AM Subject: Re: Check for numeric values Hi, You could use regular expression to do this, here is the example with the reference site that might help

Re: Check for numeric values

2013-10-08 Thread Sukhjinder K. Narula
Hi, You could use regular expression to do this, here is the example with the reference site that might help you: If your data is 'test', 'test0', 'test', '111test', '111' SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE col1 REGEXP '^[0-9]+$'; Result: '111' In regex ^ mean begin, and $ - end. SELECT * FROM m

Check for numeric values

2013-10-08 Thread Mike Blezien
Hello, I need to select some data from a table where a column is not a numerical value but can't seem to get the right syntax for this. Basically we need to do something like this: SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE column_name (IS NOT A NUMERIC VALUE) what is the correct syntax to accomplish thi