On 1/31/08, Gilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I'm no SQL guru, and need to look up phone numbers in a SQLite database > that start with certain digits. Some customers use > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Inward_Dialing, which means that the > first part is common to all the numbers assigned to this customer, so I > don't need to enter every single one of them, and just assign the prefix, > eg. "123" matches "1230001", "1230002", etc. > > Should I use the LIKE command for this? Does someone have an example to do > this? >
WHERE col LIKE '123%' or WHERE substr(col,1, 3) = '123' > Thank you. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
