Thread: Seeking rows whit \

Is there a way to search for rows with the character \?

I tried variants of like and  ~.

create table mytable (f1 text);
insert into mytable values ('Test row 1');
insert into mytable values (E'Test row 2 \\');

select * from mytable where f1 like E'%\\%'; <-- returned nothing
select * from mytable where f1 ~ '\'; <-- waiting for single quote
select * from mytable where f1 ~ E'\\'; <-- Error

And a few more variants.. with no valid reults.

Any suggestions?

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> wrote:
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Gurjeet Singh writes:

> Thus, writing a pattern that actually matches a literal backslash means
> writing four backslashes in the statement.

Thanks.

 select * from mytable where f1 like '%\\\\%';
Worked.

For the archives..

After reading section 4.1.2.2
Also found that these other one also works
select * from mytable where f1 ~ $$\\$$;
select * from mytable where f1 like $$%\\%$$;