On 4/11/2013 11:23 PM, Baboo, Isa wrote:
>
> Firstly let me mention I am a noob to postgres,DB and sql anyway, I
> have a column with First names and need to list names that have
> non-alphanumeric characters in them like + or * and the list goes on.
> I did google a bit and tried:
>
> /select * from TABLE where first_name not like '%[a-z0-9]%'; /
>
you'll probably have to use a regex for that.
something like... (my regex is really rusty)
... WHERE first_name !~ '^[a-z0-9]*$';
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