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From Steve Atkins
Subject Re: Method to detect certain characters in column?
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In response to Method to detect certain characters in column?  ("Ian Meyer" <ianmmeyer@gmail.com>)
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On Jun 23, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Ian Meyer wrote:

> So I have a column that contains usernames that have characters such
> as Ã(c)(R), for example: fuchÃ(c)r.. is there any way to find names
> with non A-Za-z0-9?

... WHERE column ~* '[^a-z0-9]'

Cheers,
   Steve

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