RE: [PHP-DB] Wildcards

From: Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 20:41:47 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Wildcards
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That query doesn't make sense... All you are looking for is to get a resultset containing ONLY the rows where name is John. So, just write: SELECT ID, NAME, ADDRESS FROM users WHERE NAME='John'; By the way, in SQL, the wildcard character for regular expressions is the '%' not '*' . Gurhan -----Original Message----- From: Morten Nielsen [mailto:mosgaard2000@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:46 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Wildcards Hi, I am trying to make a SELECT command like this: $qid =db_query(" SELECT ID, NAME, ADDRESS FROM users WHERE ID=* AND NAME='John' "); Is it somehow possible to have a wildcard, so it returns all records, where the name is john and the ID is not important? Regards, Morten -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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