Thanks for the response but I tried that and it does not work here is an example of names which still display.
test
sadadds
Hillary
BEN NAME
ALAN MCGARVEY +
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: 12 April 2013 08:41 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] list non alphanumeric
On 4/11/2013 11:23 PM, Baboo, Isa wrote:
Firstly let me mention I am a noob to postgres,DB and sql anyway, I have a column with First names and need to list names that have non-alphanumeric characters in them like + or * and the list goes on. I did google a bit and tried:
select * from TABLE where first_name not like '%[a-z0-9]%';
you'll probably have to use a regex for that.
something like... (my regex is really rusty)
... WHERE first_name !~ '^[a-z0-9]*$';
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