Re: SQL Where Like - Range it?!

H-

Thanks again.

Being slow at times I know why ~* '^[A-F]' wasn't working.

Yeah, that's right. There weren't any records in that range. I moved it
up and pulled some records in a range of A-P and it worked as expected.

Thanks to all that wrote in and replied. I understand why the LIKE 'A%'
AND LIKE 'F%' wasn't working now also.
Or why it wouldn't work if there were records there.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.
Back to the code.
-Sterling

Sterling wrote:
>
> H-
>
> Thank you to all that have replied.
>
> Unfortunately none of the examples provided worked for me on my system.
>
> I tried:
> SELECT * from table where last_name BETWEEN 'A' AND 'G';
> SELECT * from table where last_name >='A' AND last_name<'G';
> SELECT * from table where last_name ~* '^[A-F]';
>
> to no avail. 8^(
>
> I didn't find a between function in the postgres documentation.
>
> Is that some special function? I'm using PostgreSQL 6.5.3.
>
> If anyone has any further thoughts please drop a line.
> Thanks again and hopefully something will work out.
> -Sterling
>
> en Morgan wrote:
> >
> > >What I'd like to do is pull a list of records where there is a range of
> > >last names; say from A - F.
> > >select * from table where last_name LIKE 'A%' AND last_name LIKE 'F%' -
> > >for example.
> > >
> > >The above code I've tried for this doesn't seem to work as I'd expect it
> > >too?
> >
> > SELECT * FROM table WHERE last_name BETWEEN 'A' AND 'Fzzzzzzzzzzzzz' ;
> > worked for me.
> >
> > You could also use BETWEEN 'A' AND 'G' to avoid all of the zzzzzzzzs at the
> > end. Crude but effective.
> >
> > len morgan
> >
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