> On Mar 2, 2018, at 5:41 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/02/2018 04:36 PM, Dale Seaburg wrote:
>> My mind is drawing a blank.  Not sure where to go to find the answer. Here 
>> is the statement in C#:
>> sSQL = "SELECT \"Image_Filename\" FROM \"Instruments\" WHERE ";
>> To finish off the WHERE clause, I need to look at the first 2 letters, like 
>> "D:".  My question is how do I specify in the WHERE clause, to look at the 
>> first 2 characters in the Image_Filename column?  What is the correct SQL 
>> syntax for looking at just a portion of a column?
> 
> SELECT "Image_Filename" FROM "Instruments" WHERE "ImageFilename" LIKE 'D:%';
> 
> If you want case insensitive then ILIKE. For more info:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-LIKE
> 
>> I feel so dumb...  This can't be that hard, but I am exhausted and running 
>> out of ideas.  I need someone to give me a boost!  ;-)
>> Thanks,
>> Dale.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.kla...@aklaver.com
> 
Use the tilda, Luke. 
filename ~ ‘^D:’

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