Question

I’m trying to get info from a table using a browser path column in the table. This is what the query looks like:

select * from selwowscheduler sc
join browser b on sc.scheduledbrowser = b.browserid

where b.browserpath like '*iexplore C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe'

Thing is, this returns nothing. I can put %iexplore.exe instead of *iexplore C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe and that returns something (though more than I want).

I thought maybe it was the literals \ so I replaced the \ with \\, but that didn’t work either (Still returns nothing).

Does anyone know why this isn’t working?

Thanks.

EDIT: I know * is not a wild card, it is part of what is on the path. We use it to initiate different browsers on different PCs.

Answer 1

You have to escape a backslash like that \\\\. Try:

where b.browserpath like '%iexplore C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Internet Explorer\\\\iexplore.exe'