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  • Committer: Lee Bieber
  • Date: 2011-03-03 02:20:56 UTC
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The LIKE operator is used to check if field values match a specified pattern, and searches for less-than-exact but similar values.
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An initial example is:
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.. code-block:: mysql
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        SELECT 'ä' LIKE 'ae' COLLATE latin1_german2_ci;
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Returns 0
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Whereas:
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        SELECT 'ä' = 'ae' COLLATE latin1_german2_ci;
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The LIKE operator supports the use of two wildcards. (Wildcards provide more flexibility by allowing any character or group of characters in a string to be acceptable as a match for another string):
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    * Percentage (%): Represents zero or more values.