Remember, '_' matches any 1 character, so change what you're looking for.
Try:
Select col1 from table
where translate(col1,'_','#') like 'v#lan%'
/
Regards,
Alan Martin
Defense Logistics Info Service
Battle Creek, MI
-----Original Message-----
From: Benny Pei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 6:19 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: select strings with '_' in it
Hello,
I have this data 'v_lan' and also 'vclan'. I would
like to select 'v_lan' but not 'vclan'. Is it possible
to do that?
I tried
set escape on
select col1 from table where col1 like 'v\_lan'
/
but it doesn't work.
thank you,
benny
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