Question

SELECT *
FROM list
WHERE list_item LIKE "%_1375_%"

returns results it should not. For example a result with 13753 in the list_item instead of 1375, even though the 3 comes before the underscore.

 _13753_  and _1375_ are written above and not suppose to be italic.

Is there anyway to fix that?

Answer 1

From MySQL reference manual here

SQL pattern matching enables you to use “_” to match any single
character and “%” to match an arbitrary number of characters
(including zero characters).

So, you’ll have to escape them to match a literal underscore character. Like so:

SELECT * FROM list
WHERE list_item LIKE "%\_1375\_%"