On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Michael wrote: > > I am trying to do a select with a WHERE clause excluding all fields that > don't start with 'A'..'Z' > > Something in the form of > WHERE lastname > NOT LIKE ('A'..'Z') AND > NOT LIKE ('a'..'z') SELECT * FROM somewhere WHERE lastname !~ '[A-Z]' AND lastname !~ '[a-z]'; will INCLUDE the fields that *don't* start with A-Za-z while SELECT * FROM somewhere WHERE lastname ~ '[A-Z]' AND lastname ~ '[a-z]'; will EXCLUDE the fields that *don't* start with A-Za-z Hope this helps... Marin -= Why do we need gates in a world without fences? =-