On Jan 29, 2008 2:03 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Sorry, I missed the "^" for the regexp ^A+
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The ^ should only be used if you were to use Perl regexes, and even
then your expression would not match anything but strings that held
"A"s (+ matches the last character 1 or more times). But you should
not be using Perl regexes, you should be using the SQL operator LIKE
and its pattern matching language.
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> I applied your method but the query does not return any record from
> the table.
>
> Also when I try to match only one field using like:
> my $arg = shift;
> my $sth = $dbh->prepare (" SELECT * FROM $tableName firstname like
> '$arg' ");
> $sth->execute();
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This sure doesn't look like my code. Try this hard code first and the
work your way up to doing it dynamically:
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * from $tableName where firstname like
'A%' or lastname like 'A%' or email like 'A%'");
Also, you should read up on SQL injection attacks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql_injection
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