Couldn't you use "SELECT DISTINCT" for this?
http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/E/SELECT.html
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From: "Joseph Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [PHP-DB] Modify Query, or sift through results?
> I've got a script that searches a db every night and sends out e-mail if
> it finds something a person would be interested in, based on criteria
> they gave us. The problem is that I have one field that stores regions
> of the country in a very unpleasant way. It stores them as:
>
> Northeast;West;South
>
> So all of the regions for one record go into one field. The problem is
> that when searching that, if someone has a preference of 'North', I
> dont want to pull records that have 'Northeast', as would happen with
> the above example. Is there a way to modify the MySQL query so as to
> find only 'North', keeping in mind that 'North' may be the 3rd in a list
> of semi-colon separated regions? Or do I need to sift through the
> results in PHP to clean them up? Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
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