Howto search in SQL for a specific character?

From: Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:55:27 +0000
Subject: Howto search in SQL for a specific character?
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Hi there! in PHP i Write.. $v1 = chr(39); //39 is apostrofe $sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = $v1"; Why doesn't this work? I want the sql to select all nameOfPedigree - fields where the first character is apostrofe (') /G http://www.varupiraten.se/

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