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Select Non Alpha Contents of a Column

From
Hunter Hillegas
Date:
Is there a way to select all rows where a certain column starts with
non-alpha characters?

I would like to select all the rows that don't start with letters.

Possible?

Hunter

Re: Select Non Alpha Contents of a Column

From
Jeff Eckermann
Date:
--- Hunter Hillegas <lists@lastonepicked.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to select all rows where a certain
> column starts with
> non-alpha characters?
>
> I would like to select all the rows that don't start
> with letters.
>
> Possible?

Regular expressions would do what you want, e.g.
"select * from mytable where myfield !~ '^[a-zA-Z]';"
Look under "pattern matching" in the "functions and
operators" section of the manual (I think, working
from memory).

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Re: Select Non Alpha Contents of a Column

From
Martin Marques
Date:
El Lun 29 Dic 2003 20:11, Hunter Hillegas escribió:
> Is there a way to select all rows where a certain column starts with
> non-alpha characters?
>
> I would like to select all the rows that don't start with letters.
>
> Possible?

SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE col !~* '^a-z'

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