Hello, "Z", Have you made sure you don't have a trailing space or other invisible character at the end of the field?
As a first step, you might try a query such as the following: * select '(' || LocationID || ')' , * from airports where LocationID like 'USE%'* Maybe this helps, Donald Griggs On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Support <apps...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I have a database which has an entry "USE" in a table called airports with > column LocationID. > When I call > sqlite3 -line ~/Desktop/maps.db 'select * from airports where LocationID > like "USE%";' > I get correct result. > > But when I call > sqlite3 -line ~/Desktop/maps.db 'select * from airports where > LocationID=="USE";' > > I do not get any result. > > When I call > sqlite3 -line ~/Desktop/maps.db 'select LocationID from airports;' > > I do see that "USE" is in there among many other entries. > > It only happens with "USE". Does not happen with "BOS" etc. > > Thanks > Z > ______________________________**_________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-**users<http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users> > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users