Re: Hex char search in SQL?

["Ron Adams" <rondadams@xxxxxxxxx>]

EXCELLENT! That did it!

Thanks for your help.



On 6/26/06, vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ron - the LIKE needs a percent sign - string it into the hex literal -
> x'6C' is the percent symbol.
>
> WHERE MINLOC LIKE X'6C4E6C'
>
> Or try
>
> where posstr(MINLOC, x'224E20') > 0
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Ron Adams" <rondadams@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Really bad grammar. Try again.
> >
> > From what I can tell, the characters are usually X'224E20'. It almost
> > seems like if these are some key-stroke combination that is not
> recognized,
> > but I'm not sure what they would be.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/26/06, Ron Adams wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got a number of instances in a particular table on my system
> where
> > > we keep getting bad data at the end of the field. From what I can
> tell, the
> > > characters are usually X'224E20', not sure it almost seems like if
> these
> > > are some key-stroke combination that is not recognized, but I'm not
> sure
> > > what they would be. I am trying to build an SQL statement to show all
> the
> > > occurences, but I can figure out how to specify the select for the
> LIKE.
> > > Here's my statement:
> > >
> > > SELECT PLT, ITMID, MAJLOC, MINLOC FROM ccsdta/dcsilm WHERE MINLOC
> > > LIKE X'4E'
> > >
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