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MySQL pattern matching 3 or more “a's” in name?
Following is the syntax −
select * from yourTableName where yourColumnName like '%a%a%a%';
Let us first create a −
mysql> create table DemoTable1393 -> ( -> CountryName varchar(40) -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.71 sec)
Insert some records in the table using insert −
mysql> insert into DemoTable1393 values('andorra');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.50 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable1393 values('australia');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable1393 values('argentina');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.46 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable1393 values('austria');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.26 sec)Display all records from the table using select −
mysql> select * from DemoTable1393;
This will produce the following output −
+-------------+ | CountryName | +-------------+ | andorra | | australia | | argentina | | austria | +-------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Following is the query to pattern matching 3 or more “a's” in column −
mysql> select * from DemoTable1393 where CountryName like '%a%a%a%';
This will produce the following output −
+-------------+ | CountryName | +-------------+ | australia | +-------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Updated on: 11-Nov-2019
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