> Xuanvinh Vu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorry it was actually quite simple for the WHERE clause it should be >> >> WHERE Name LIKE '2_%' >> >> to select Name that starts with the string "2_" > > Note that '_' is one of the special characters LIKE operator recognizes: > it matches any character (the other one, %, matches any sequence of > characters). Thus, the condition you show is actually looking for > strings that begin with '2' and are at least two characters long. > > You want something like this: > > WHERE Name LIKE '2\_%' ESCAPE '\' > > Igor Tandetnik
Looks like Igor's and my replies crossed in the (e)mail! One question: I thought that the '\' character is not part of the SQL standard. (That's why I specified '/' instead as my ESCAPE character). - Richard Klein _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
