Hi Thanks for the response but I tried that and it does not work here is an example of names which still display.
test sadadds Hillary BEN NAME ALAN MCGARVEY + From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: 12 April 2013 08:41 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] list non alphanumeric On 4/11/2013 11:23 PM, Baboo, Isa wrote: Firstly let me mention I am a noob to postgres,DB and sql anyway, I have a column with First names and need to list names that have non-alphanumeric characters in them like + or * and the list goes on. I did google a bit and tried: select * from TABLE where first_name not like '%[a-z0-9]%'; you'll probably have to use a regex for that. something like... (my regex is really rusty) ... WHERE first_name !~ '^[a-z0-9]*$'; -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast To read FirstRand Bank's Disclaimer for this email click on the following address or copy into your Internet browser: https://www.fnb.co.za/disclaimer.html If you are unable to access the Disclaimer, send a blank e-mail to firstrandbankdisclai...@fnb.co.za and we will send you a copy of the Disclaimer.
