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esthera
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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 Posted - 2005-03-14 : 05:08:59
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| in my table i have a list of states and if the state includes a space there will be a space.so los angeles is in the table as los angelesnow In my query I want to pull up the los angeles row regardless of wether I do select * from zipcodes where city like 'los angeles'or select * from zipcodes where city like 'losangeles'(without the spaces)What's the best way to go about this? |
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
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Posted - 2005-03-14 : 05:33:11
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declare @city varchar(100)set @city = 'los angeles' -- or 'losangeles'select * from zipcodes where replace(city, ' ', '') like replace(@city, ' ', '')Go with the flow & have fun! Else fight the flow  |
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esthera
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
1410 Posts |
Posted - 2005-03-14 : 05:50:41
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| Thanks for your help :)Exactly what I needed! I appreciate it |
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sql trimming spaces