Thanks for the help. As often happens in these situations, a little
searching and experimentation got me a workable answer before any replies
arrived.
In my case, I was able to use the LOCATE operator, i.e.
select idx, lname,schedalonerscs from usrs where LOCATE(",7,",
schedalonerscs) != 0;
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Dave, you could just use a LIKE statement
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE mystring LIKE "%,2,%"
Of course if it is at the beginning or end, or the only item, it may
look like '2' '2,' or ',2' and not ',2,' so this would work in all
cases I think:
WHERE (mystring LIKE "%,2,%" OR mystring LIKE "2,%" OR
Hi,
I'm a little bit lost on MySQL statements.
I am implementing a many:many relationship using a string (wrong way, I
know, but I'm trying to keep the design simple and this is a trivial
application).
In a VARCHAR field, I will store a comma-delimited set of integers
corresponding to the indic
