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Thank you to all that have replied.
Unfortunately none of the examples provided worked for me on my system.
I tried:
SELECT * from table where last_name BETWEEN 'A' AND 'G';
SELECT * from table where last_name >='A' AND last_name<'G';
SELECT * from table where last_name ~* '^[A-F]';
to no avail. 8^(
I didn't find a between function in the postgres documentation.
Is that some special function? I'm using PostgreSQL 6.5.3.
If anyone has any further thoughts please drop a line.
Thanks again and hopefully something will work out.
-Sterling
en Morgan wrote:
>
> >What I'd like to do is pull a list of records where there is a range of
> >last names; say from A - F.
> >select * from table where last_name LIKE 'A%' AND last_name LIKE 'F%' -
> >for example.
> >
> >The above code I've tried for this doesn't seem to work as I'd expect it
> >too?
>
> SELECT * FROM table WHERE last_name BETWEEN 'A' AND 'Fzzzzzzzzzzzzz' ;
> worked for me.
>
> You could also use BETWEEN 'A' AND 'G' to avoid all of the zzzzzzzzs at the
> end. Crude but effective.
>
> len morgan
>
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