Re: Find \ in text

On 09/07/2010 02:04 PM, Christine Penner wrote:
> I have a character field in a table that contains either a file name
> or a full path and file name. I need to pick out the ones that have no
> full path. I do this by looking for no \. This is what I am doing:
>
> select MM_PATH_FILE from MULTI_MEDIA Where MM_PATH_FILE NOT ILIKE '%\\%'
>         -this gives me all records no matter what has a \ or not
>
> select MM_PATH_FILE from MULTI_MEDIA Where MM_PATH_FILE NOT ILIKE '%\%'
>         -this gives me nothing again no matter  what has a \ or not
>
> I even tried this
> select MM_PATH_FILE from MULTI_MEDIA Where position('\' in
> MM_PATH_FILE)=0
>         -this gives me an error
>
> Any other suggestions?
... like E'%\\\\%'

Cheers,
Steve