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WHERE clause with multiple LIKE values [message #374297]

Mon, 04 June 2001 18:37

Carl Colburn
Messages: 7
Registered: June 2001

Junior Member

Hi,
Have VB6 app working on Oracle 8.

2 questions:
1. Is there a way to make the wildcard % specify a numerical value instead of letters? If I have the following:

ABCWWWWW
ABC11111
ABC22222
ABC33333

I want to say "...WHERE type like 'ABC%' where the record "ABCWWWWW" will be excluded because the % looks for a numerical value and excludes letters. Can you also say something like 'ABC_%', where the _ would look for the fourth character in the string to be numeric and not a letter?

2. Need to write a WHERE clause with multiple LIKEs. For example, if I want only the 1's and 2's, not 3's:

"...WHERE type like 'ABC1%' or 'ABC2%"
"...WHERE type in (like 'ABC1%', 'ABC2%')

I know the above syntaxes are wrong, but give an idea of what I want to do.

Thanks in advance.

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