April 5, 2018 at 8:56 am
I am wondering if someone can help me understand what this is in the query I am sharing below?
'%[^a-zA-Z0-9(+&]%')
This is the 1st time I have seen it.
P.S this is not a complete query, only part of it.Select d.UID from [FJMobileContactStaging]d
where (substring(d.[Cell Phone],-1,3)<'2'
or substring (d.[Cell Phone],4,1)<'2'
or d.[Cell Phone]like'%22222222%'
or d.[Cell Phone] like '%[^a-zA-Z0-9(+&]%')
and len(d.[Cell Phone])<>4
April 5, 2018 at 9:09 am
NewBornDBA2017 - Thursday, April 5, 2018 8:56 AMI am wondering if someone can help me understand what this is in the query I am sharing below?'%[^a-zA-Z0-9(+&]%')
This is the 1st time I have seen it.
P.S this is not a complete query, only part of it.
Select d.UID from [FJMobileContactStaging]d
where (substring(d.[Cell Phone],-1,3)<'2'
or substring (d.[Cell Phone],4,1)<'2'
or d.[Cell Phone]like'%22222222%'
or d.[Cell Phone] like '%[^a-zA-Z0-9(+&]%')
and len(d.[Cell Phone])<>4
It's a Regular Expression (Regex).
It means, show me any rows where [Cell Phone] contains characters other than a–z, A–Z, 0–9,(,+ or &
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
April 5, 2018 at 9:35 am
Phil Parkin - Thursday, April 5, 2018 9:09 AMIt's a Regular Expression (Regex).
It means, show me any rows where [Cell Phone] contains characters other than a–z, A–Z, 0–9,(,+ or &
Only because I've been pulled up on this before Phil, but it's not actually REGEX; it's doesn't have as much functionality as REGEX does. It is very similar in formatting, however, which is likely intentional. 🙂
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
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April 5, 2018 at 10:34 am
Thom A - Thursday, April 5, 2018 9:35 AMPhil Parkin - Thursday, April 5, 2018 9:09 AMIt's a Regular Expression (Regex).
It means, show me any rows where [Cell Phone] contains characters other than a–z, A–Z, 0–9,(,+ or &Only because I've been pulled up on this before Phil, but it's not actually REGEX; it's doesn't have as much functionality as REGEX does. It is very similar in formatting, however, which is likely intentional. 🙂
Thanks Thom! I did actually debate putting "of sorts" after "Regular Expression", because I know it's not got all the functionality of an, err, regular Regular Expression ...
Thinking on it some more, I still can't think of a good & snappy way of describing it. Cut-down Regex? Extended wildcard? Gandalf expression?
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April 5, 2018 at 11:27 am
Phil Parkin - Thursday, April 5, 2018 10:34 AMThanks Thom! I did actually debate putting "of sorts" after "Regular Expression", because I know it's not got all the functionality of an, err, regular Regular Expression ...
Thinking on it some more, I still can't think of a good & snappy way of describing it. Cut-down Regex? Extended wildcard? Gandalf expression?
oh, I lik
Oh, I like Gandalf. :p
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
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