Compare Two Strings in MySQL

Question

My current query (doesn\'t work)

SELECT url
FROM table
WHERE
    \'http://www.longurl.com/some/string\' like \'%\' . url . \'%\'

table

Answer 1

Okay, what about:

SELECT url 
  FROM table 
 WHERE INSTR('http://www.longurl.com/some/string', url) > 0

(Formatting didn't work so well in the comments, so I added it again as an answer.)