Hi,
You can try with string function substring(),LPAD(),RPAD()...
Please look in documentation at :
"6.3.2 String Functions"
Regards,
Gelu
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From: "tristan Israel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:48 AM
Subject: mysql search
> Hello,
>
> I have a field named "rights" (varchar[9])
>
> it contains some records like "wrxwrxwrx" or "wr-w--w-x"
>
> I'd like to find all the records that contains this : "wr??????"
>
> That's why I did this query : "SELECT * FROM table WHERE rights LIKE
> 'wr??????'"
>
> and it doesn't work !
>
> It extension, a simple search like : "SELECT * FROM table WHERE name
> LIKE 'I*'" doesn't return anything.
>
> Could you help me ?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
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