RE: Pattern maching question

From: William Beilstein <BeilstWH_at_OBG.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:14:41 -0400
Message-Id: <10624.117353@fatcity.com>

Use

select contact_name from contact=20
where substr(contact_name,1,1) between '0' and '9'

>>> Diana Duncan <Diana_at_fileFRENZY.com> 09/19/00 10:45AM >>>
If you have OWA, the owa_pattern package is very good for this stuff. I don't know why they haven't made that one into a regular dbms_ or utl_ package yet. If you can, steal that package!

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 6:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

How can I get all the contacts which start with numbers? =20 PLEASE NOTE: contact_name is a character field.

select contact_name from contact=20
where contact_name like '[0-9]%' =20

does not work (like other dbms...)

My workaround is;

select contact_name from contact=20
where contact_name < 'A'

but I want to know the proper syntax for the first query. --=20
Author: Glenn Travis
INET: Glenn.Travis_at_wcom.com=20

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