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Jonathan Gorman wrote: > I think what's Ken is asking for though is there some combination of the > IN operator and LIKE operator. He's trying to exclude a set of patterns, > ie converting (ip NOT LIKE "127.%" OR ip NOT LIKE "143.123.%"). yup - that's exactly what i'm trying to do. > say much), but if by some stroke of luck you filter based on a certain > part of the address you could do a substring function. > > SELECT * FROM iptables > WHERE substring(iptables,1,7) NOT IN (127.475,...) sadly, my data isn't quite regular enough for that. it could simply be that MySQL isn't built to handle this kind of query. thanks Ken -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University