I'm trying to run a perl script that calls MySQL to SELECT files that match a given word that may be embedded within a phrase. For instance, I want to select every row the contains 'San Diego' in the REGION column ... a basic pattern match that I initially thought would be very straightforward based on the MySQL documentation using %San Diego%, but it selects nothing. When i just select 'San Diego', it will pull out all the files that have only San Diego, but misses any file that has anything else in that column.

any expert tips?


$dsn = "DBI:mysql:database;db.database.com";
           
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,'user','pass');

$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM company_contact_info WHERE region 
+= '%San Diego%' ";");

$sth->execute();

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thanks, cdherold

In reply to MySQL pattern matching by cdherold

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