you might want to try escaping the simple slashes aswell... and you have to double the number of backslashes....
learning=> SELECT * FROM test where x like '\\\\'; x --- \ (1 row)
*tadaaa*
cheers, alex
Shane Wright wrote:
Hi
This is really driving me silly - I can't work it out, can anyone see what I'm doing thats stupid and causing this not to match?
This shows that the row exists in the table:
emystery=> select aid,useragent from useragent where useragent like '%ntserver-ps%'; aid | useragent -----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 875741007 | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\\ntserver-ps\publicsw\nt\ie6\ins\active.ins) (1 row)
this tries to select it (note that I've escaped the backslashes):
emystery=> select * from useragent where useragent ilike 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\\\\ntserver-ps\\publicsw\\nt\\ie6\\ins\\active.ins)'; aid | useragent | date_added | data_browser | data_version | data_os -----+-----------+------------+--------------+--------------+--------- (0 rows)
no match! This one encodes the backslashes (\xxx octal for ASCII value) in a different way:
emystery=> select * from useragent where useragent ilike 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\134\134ntserver-ps\134publicsw\134nt\134ie6\134ins\134active.ins)'; aid | useragent | date_added | data_browser | data_version | data_os -----+-----------+------------+--------------+--------------+--------- (0 rows)
again no match! And to show that the above queries were correct:
emystery=> select 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\\\\ntserver-ps\\publicsw\\nt\\ie6\\ins\\active.ins)'; ?column? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\\ntserver-ps\publicsw\nt\ie6\ins\active.ins) (1 row)
emystery=> select 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\134\134ntserver-ps\134publicsw\134nt\134ie6\134ins\134active.ins)'; ?column? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\\ntserver-ps\publicsw\nt\ie6\ins\active.ins) (1 row)
They are identical! I can't work out whats going on! Please, if anyone can see what's wrong it'll stop me careering into my early grave!
Thanks
Shane
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