Re: list non alphanumeric

Hi

Thanks for the response but I tried that and it does not work here is an example of names which still display.

test
sadadds
Hillary
BEN NAME
ALAN MCGARVEY +

From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce
Sent: 12 April 2013 08:41 AM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] list non alphanumeric

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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