Thank y'all very very much. Each day I learn something new ;) susan
-----Original Message----- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:35 PM To: Susan Ator; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: query question [snip] Is there a way to check if a field has x number of characters in it? I have a table with a column (phone) which, for the moment is varchar(25). I need to find those entries which have less than 10 characters. [/tuck] http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/String_functions.html mysql> SELECT LENGTH('text'); -> 4 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]