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sigmas
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Posted - 01/23/2013 :  01:43:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi all,
I want to search for "[[% SQL Server %]]" pattern in a string value (Note, ] [ % are not wildcards).

I want an alternative LIKE for this without ESCAPE.

like '%?[?[?% SQL Server ?%?]?]%' ESCAPE '?'

I wrote this code, but that is not correct:

like '%[[][[][%] SQL Server [%][]][]]%'

visakh16
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Posted - 01/23/2013 :  02:01:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
do you mean this?



SELECT *
FROM
(
SELECT '[[% SQL Server %]]' AS val UNION ALL
SELECT '[[%SQL Server]]' AS val UNION ALL
SELECT 'SQL Server' AS val UNION ALL
SELECT '[% SQL%]' 
)t
WHERE val LIKE '%[[[%] SQL Server [%]]%' 


output
-----------------------
val
-----------------------
[[% SQL Server %]]




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SQL Server MVP
http://visakhm.blogspot.com/
Edited by - visakh16 on 01/23/2013 02:02:17
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sigmas
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Posted - 01/23/2013 :  04:21:45  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by visakh16

do you mean this?



SELECT *
FROM
(
SELECT '[[% SQL Server %]]' AS val UNION ALL
SELECT '[[%SQL Server]]' AS val UNION ALL
SELECT 'SQL Server' AS val UNION ALL
SELECT '[% SQL%]' 
)t
WHERE val LIKE '%[[[%] SQL Server [%]]]%' 


output
-----------------------
val
-----------------------
[[% SQL Server %]]




------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SQL Server MVP
http://visakhm.blogspot.com/


Thank you, that's right. are there some good articls about such pattern matching?

my rewrite query: like '%?[?[?% SQL Server ?%]]%' escape '?'
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sigmas
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Posted - 01/23/2013 :  06:51:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Now how I should query for this by using square brackets ([]):
'[abcde]'

Is this correct?
like '[[]abcde]%'

or this?
like '$[abcde]%' escape '$'
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visakh16
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Posted - 01/23/2013 :  07:20:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yep...that's correct

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sigmas
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Posted - 01/23/2013 :  07:25:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
your like is not correct
Execute this.
SELECT *
FROM
(
SELECT '[% SQL Server %]]' AS val UNION ALL
SELECT '[[%SQL Server%]]' AS val UNION ALL
SELECT '[% SQL Server %]' AS val UNION ALL
SELECT '[ SQL]'
)t
WHERE val like '%[[[%] SQL Server [%]]]%'
Edited by - sigmas on 01/23/2013 07:26:33
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