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

Try removing or escaping some of the characters in your URL string. OR omitting the http: part .. I believe the : could be confusing the parser ...

so try   %//longurl.com/%

or even

%longurl.com%  if possible

or even

http://longurl.com/%