Sándor Tamás (HostWare Kft.) wrote:
I don't really get it. This is a select statement working with the
datas of one table.
A field of a record (namely "page" here) can only take one value, so
it is totally nonsense to give XOR for that field.
I think you want to select two different recordsets: one with page 1
and 3, and another with 2 and 3, am I right?
SanTa
Yes, you are right. Any ideas on how to do this within one query?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashley Sheridan"
<ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Merlin Morgenstern" <merlin_x@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Peter Ford" <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Re: logic operands problem
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 12:37 +0100, Merlin Morgenstern wrote:
Peter Ford wrote:
> Merlin Morgenstern wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I am having trouble finding a logic for following problem:
>>
>> Should be true if:
>> page = 1 OR page = 3, but it should also be true if page = 2 OR
page = >> 3
>>
>> The result should never contain 1 AND 2 in the same time.
>>
>> This obviously does not work:
>> (page = 1 OR page = 3) OR (page = 2 OR page = 3)
>>
>> This also does not work:
>> (page = 1 OR page = 3 AND page != 2) OR (page = 2 OR page = 3 AND
page
>> != 1)
>>
>> Has somebody an idea how to solve this?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any help!
>>
>> Merlin
>
>
> Surely what you need is xor (exclusive-or)
> I can't believe a programmer has never heard of that!
>
> (page==1 XOR page==2) AND page==3
>
HEllo Peter,
thank you for your reply. I know about XOR, but unfortunatelly I might
not know how to use it properly OR it is not aplicable on SQL. I am
trying to retrive data:
SELECT * FROM test WHERE ((page = 1 XOR page = 2) OR page = 3)
I know this is not php, but I thought the logic should be the same in
this case?!
Regards, Merlin
This will likely retrieve all the records in the table. Is that what
your tests have shown?
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
