Oh! I misunderstood..
This is tougher, you're selecting the entire set, so you won't have
anything after 'WHERE', but you're defining how the returned items are
formatted, this goes before table selection:
Select DISTINCT SUBSTRING_INDEX(`area`, '-', 2) from table;
I didn't test this, but it should work. Look up SUBSTRING_INDEX in the
docs..
-Micah
Kevin Murphy wrote:
Well, its not really a search.... that would be way easier. :-) What
I'm looking for is a query that will give me the complete list of
items that are distinct, minus the last number after the last hyphen.
animal-dog
animal-cat
animal-bird
--Kevin Murphy
Webmaster: Information and Marketing Services
Western Nevada Community College
www.wncc.edu
775-445-3326
On Aug 30, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Micah Stevens wrote:
Select DISTINCT area from table like '$searchterms%';
In SQL, you can use the 'LIKE' keyword along with the '%' and '_'
wildcards.. '_' is one character, '%' is any number of chars.
-Micah
Kevin Murphy wrote:
This might be really easy, but I'm just not sure how to write this
query and my searching on google isn't finding me things, probably
because I am searching for the wrong terms.
I have a bunch of records where the "area" column is like:
animal-dog-5
animal-dog-3
animal-cat-1
animal-cat-22
animal-bird-5
What I want to do is run a distinct query on just the part previous
to the number.
animal-dog
animal-cat
animal-bird
So in other words, something like this, but I am not sure if this is
the right way to go:
$query = "SELECT DISTINCT area FROM table WHERE REGEXP
'anynumberofletters dash anynumberofletters dash '"
Of course, I could be barking up the wrong tree with the REGEXP
thing. Anyone care to point me in the right direction?
--Kevin Murphy
Webmaster: Information and Marketing Services
Western Nevada Community College
www.wncc.edu
775-445-3326
--Kevin Murphy
Webmaster: Information and Marketing Services
Western Nevada Community College
www.wncc.edu
775-445-3326
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