Nice! That did the trick. Thanks Brad. I live to fight another day. Tony On 5/18/07 3:00 PM, "Brad Bonkoski" <bbonkoski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Try using the substr, since you are only comparing the first letters... > (sorry I did not reply all on the other email, Dan) > > i.e. > > select name from users where substr(name, 1, 1) >= 'A' and substr(name, > 1, 1) <= 'B'; > > -B > Dan Shirah wrote: >> So just change it to WHERE last_name BETWEEN 'A' AND 'G' . That'll >> get you >> Aa-Fz :) >> >> >> On 5/18/07, Tony Grimes <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> We tried that and it didn't work. We've also tried every combination of >>> upper and lower case too. >>> >>> Tony >>> >>> >>> On 5/18/07 2:18 PM, "Brad Bonkoski" <bbonkoski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> I think you need between 'A' and 'F%' >>>> >>>> Aa is between A and F >>>> but 'Fa' is not between 'A' and 'F' >>>> (but 'Ez' would be between 'A' and 'F') >>>> -B >>>> >>>> >>>> Tony Grimes wrote: >>>>> I'm using BETWEEN to return a list all people who's last names fall >>> between >>>>> A and F: >>>>> >>>>> .... WHERE last_name BETWEEN 'A' AND 'F' ... >>>>> >>>>> but it's only returning names between A and E. The same thing happens >>> when I >>>>> use: >>>>> >>>>> .... WHERE last_name >= 'A' AND last_name <= 'F' ... >>>>> >>>>> Shouldn't this work the way I expect it? What am I doing wrong? >>>>> >>>>> Tony >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >> > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
