Re: Select Non Alpha Contents of a Column

From: Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
To: Hunter Hillegas <lists(at)lastonepicked(dot)com>, PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Select Non Alpha Contents of a Column
Date: 2003-12-29 23:35:30
Message-ID: 200312292035.30451.martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar
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El Lun 29 Dic 2003 20:11, Hunter Hillegas escribió:
> Is there a way to select all rows where a certain column starts with
> non-alpha characters?
>
> I would like to select all the rows that don't start with letters.
>
> Possible?

SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE col !~* '^a-z'

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