Question

I’m writing the following statement to select names that starts with a range of characters.

select name from db.table where name like '[c-e]%';

The statement does not return anything to me. But when I change it to:

select name from db.table where name like 'c%';

It returns records.

What is the problem ?

Answer 1

@juergen d is right but a little change required as you want to check all the name starting from in range [c-d] so

select name from db.table where name REGEXP '^[c-e].+';

“^” indicates that match when starting must match range [c-e]