How to use alphanumeric fields with BETWEEN clause in Mysql?

Question

I have a table that contain a field names as mgrs, the value that stored in mgrs fields is like \'42SWC227821555\' may contain more charachters, and may contain lower case lette

Answer 1

Instead of BETWEEN clause use STRCMP(expr1, expr2) function for string comparison operations:

WHERE STRCMP(mgrs, '42SWC227821555') >= 0 AND STRCMP(mgrs, '42SWC227821570') <= 0