Do not forget to use TRIM function as well:
LENGTH(TRIM(fax))
in order to elliminate leading and trailing spaces.
Aurel
- Original Message -
From: Geoffrey Pitman geoffrey.pit...@gmail.com
To: php-db@lists.php.net
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 7:59 PM
Subject: [PHP-DB] RE: SELECT WHERE length of content question
You should be able to use the MySQL command LENGTH() command. I'm assuming
that your fax field is a varchar or char(10) field. If it's a number (which
it probably shouldn't be), I suppose you could write a query to find values
equal to or greater than 100,000,000,000.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/string-functions.html#function_length
I hope this helps.
Geoff
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From: Ron Piggott ron.pigg...@actsministries.org
To: php-db@lists.php.net
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:49:42 -0500
Subject: SELECT WHERE length of content question
Is there a command in mySQL that would allow me to SELECT the rows where the
`fax` column is more than 11 characters long?
OR
Do I need to use PHP to assess this?
Ron
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