I need to run the following code in SQL (Snowflake) from Python.
"WHERE SOMECOLUMN LIKE 'product\\\\_%\\\\_season\\\\_s%\\\\_premium' ESCAPE '\\\\'"
For the avoidance of doubt each backslash in the SQL is repeated twice.
When I run this through Python I get the error
001003 (42000): SQL compilation error:
syntax error line 1 at position 358 unexpected '_'.
How can I properly escape this string?
CodePudding user response:
ESCAPE string could be any character, so using different character is easier and more readable, for instance ~
:
escape
Character(s) inserted in front of a wildcard character to indicate that the wildcard should be interpreted as a regular character and not as a wildcard.
"WHERE SOMECOLUMN LIKE 'product~_%~_season~_s%~_premium' ESCAPE '~'"
CodePudding user response:
It turns out I needed to escape the % with %% and the \\ with \\\\