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

this?

SELECT url
FROM table
WHERE
    url like '%http://%longurl.com%'

or you can also use %longurl.com%

Answer 2

Are you looking for:

LIKE '%longurl.com%'

Answer 3

If what you need is getting all URLs containing longurl.com then try using:

SELECT url
FROM table
WHERE
url like '%longurl.com%'

It should work.

Answer 4

The concatenation operator . does not exist in MySQL, you have to use the CONCAT() function instead:

SELECT url
FROM table
WHERE 'http://www.longurl.com/some/string' LIKE CONCAT('%', url, '%');

Answer 5

What about this:

SELECT url 
FROM table
WHERE url LIKE '%longurl.com%string%'

or, to be just like your PHP:

SELECT url 
FROM table
WHERE url LIKE '%longurl.com%'

Answer 6

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.)