escaping wildcards

[fraze]

Got a problem thats driving me nuts and not cant see the wood for the trees! I want to escape any underscores on a table_name:

set escape "\"

SQL> select table_name from user_tables
2 where table_name like 'GE\_%';

TABLE_NAME
------------------------------
GENEVA_SUMMARY
GET1
GE_T1

Basically I just want to return GE_T1

Any help appreciated!

[Srinivas_Sharma]

hey try this

set escape=\

select table_name from user_tables
where table_name like 'GE\_%' ESCAPE '\';

Srini

[fraze]

Mmmm - seems to work only if you set escape off -
SQL> select table_name from user_tables
2 where table_name like 'GE\_%' escape '\'
3 ;
where table_name like 'GE_%' escape ''
*
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-01425: escape character must be character string of length 1


SQL> set escape off
SQL> select table_name from user_tables
2 where table_name like 'GE\_%' escape '\'
3 ;

TABLE_NAME
------------------------------
GE_T1

Really could do with setting it for my SQL*Plus session but thats v much for the work around!