Help with SQL statement?

[Jeff Snoxell]

Hi,

I've got a varchar field in a mysql table that contains 'N' numbers (each a maximum of 4 digits, not zero padded) separated by spaces when more than 1 number is present.

eg. field content might be any of the following

''
'123 4567 1234 45 3'
'3'
'3 4 6'

I want to select only those records that do not contain a certain number.

Problem I have with using LIKE "%MyNum%" is that obviously this is going to match "3" against "123" which I don't want it to.

Is there something I can use like Perl's "word boundary" pattern match code?

My statement so far is:

SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE RefList NOT RLIKE "\bMyNum\b" # Where \b is a word boundary

Many thanks,


Jeff


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