How can I escape square brackets in a LIKE clause?
I am trying to filter items with a stored procedure using like. The column is a varchar(15). The items I am trying to filter have square brackets in the name.
For example: WC[R]S123456
.
If I do a LIKE 'WC[R]S123456'
it will not return anything.
I found some information on using the ESCAPE
keyword with LIKE
but I do not understand how to use it to treat the square brackets as a regular string.
LIKE 'WC[[]R]S123456'
or
LIKE 'WC\[R]S123456' ESCAPE '\'
Should work.
Let's say you want to match the literal its[brac]et
.
You don't need to escape the ]
as it has special meaning only when it is paired with [
.
Therefore escaping [
suffices to solve the problem. You can escape [
by replacing it with [[]
.