[GENERAL] list non alphanumeric

2013-04-11 Thread Baboo, Isa
Hi 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]%'

Re: [GENERAL] list non alphanumeric

2013-04-11 Thread Baboo, Isa
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

Re: [GENERAL] list non alphanumeric

2013-04-12 Thread Baboo, Isa
Hi It still displaying everything, maybe it is the spaces? test sadadds Hillary BEN NAME BOB /+ ...skipping ALAN MCGARVEY + -Original Message- From: Ian Lawrence Barwick [mailto:barw...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 April 2013 09:08 AM To: Baboo, Isa Cc: John R Pierce; pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] list non alphanumeric

2013-04-12 Thread Baboo, Isa
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] list non alphanumeric On 4/11/2013 11:50 PM, Baboo, Isa wrote: 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 + well, at least one of those has a space inline, you