LIKE operator in MySql is used to find rows that contain our query text, for example:
select name from user where name like "%john%"
which will return John Smith
, Peter Johnson
etc.
What if I need the opposite - to find rows that are CONTAINED in our query text? For example I give it John Smith and Peter Johnson are best friends
and want it to find me all names from the table that could be found in this string.
How to do that?
MySQL NOT LIKE is used to exclude those rows which are matching the criterion followed by LIKE operator. Pattern matching using SQL simple regular expression comparison. Returns 1 (TRUE) or 0 (FALSE). If either expr or pat is NULL, the result is NULL.
The MySQL LIKE Operator The LIKE operator is used in a WHERE clause to search for a specified pattern in a column. There are two wildcards often used in conjunction with the LIKE operator: The percent sign (%) represents zero, one, or multiple characters. The underscore sign (_) represents one, single character.
Following is an elementary syntax structure to code for MySQL WHERE IN Array command in MySQL server to fetch information using array values and WHERE IN clause: SELECT ColumnName1, ColumnName2, …., ColumnNameNFROM TableNameWHERE ColumnName1 IN(ColumnName1_Value1, ColumnName1_Value2, ColumnName1_Value3);
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Here's a way you can achieve what you describe:
SELECT name FROM user WHERE 'John Smith and Peter Johnson are best friends' LIKE CONCAT('%', name, '%')
select name from users where instr('John Smith and Peter Johnson', name) > 0
I would rather use this method instead of:
select * from users WHERE 'John Smith and Peter Johnson' LIKE CONCAT('%', name ,'%')
because if there is any chance that the name
could contain the %
or _
character (eg. name='v%alue') then the above query would still return that record incorrectly. Also note that if your column could contain backslashes and/or "C escape characters" then they would also need to be escaped. This is all explained in MySQL String Comparison Functions. For example the below SQL would return 1:
SELECT 'val\%ue' LIKE CONCAT('%', 'al\\\\\%u' ,'%');
The single backslash needed to be escaped with \\\\
and the %
character was escaped: \%
.
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