I'm storing telephone number (US) in 10 digit
varchars. If I want to do a search on just the area
code, is there a way to limit it to just the first 3
digits of the string ?
Thank you
Stuart
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--- Stuart Felenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm storing telephone number (US) in 10 digit
varchars. If I want to do a search on just the area
code, is there a way to limit it to just the first 3
digits of the string ?
Thank you
Stuart
I'm trying something like this but still
Stuart Felenstein wrote:
I'm storing telephone number (US) in 10 digit
varchars. If I want to do a search on just the area
code, is there a way to limit it to just the first 3
digits of the string ?
I'm trying something like this but still getting back
the whole string:
select Telephone from
--- sol beach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course you do.
You are asking for all of Telephone to be returned.
Duh!
I'm trying something like this but still getting
back
the whole string:
select Telephone from SignUp
where
Left (SUBSTRING(Telephone,1,3), 3) LIKE '4%'
--- Roger Baklund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a bit unclear what you are trying to do. Are
you trying to find all
numbers within a 3 digit area code, i.e. numbers
starting with some 3
digits? Or are you trying to find numbers with any
of the three first
digits equal to 4?
For the
--- Stuart Felenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Roger Baklund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I had not included in my original post I wanted
just the area code returned. It works -
select SUBSTRING(Telephone, 1 ,3) from SignUp
where
Left (Telephone, 3) LIKE '4%' ;
Thank you
Stuart
