Re: Select Non Alpha Contents of a Column

--- Hunter Hillegas <lists(at)lastonepicked(dot)com> wrote:
> 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?

Regular expressions would do what you want, e.g.
"select * from mytable where myfield !~ '^[a-zA-Z]';"
Look under "pattern matching" in the "functions and
operators" section of the manual (I think, working
from memory).

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard
http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree