Search by special characters

Question

In our table contains column named as description.

The description column contains following values.

test , %test , test% .

If I give %test as input of search string , then it give "test","%test","test%" as result. But I want only "%test" as result.

Answer 1

% is a special character and needs to be escaped ( http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-literals.html )

Try "\\%test"

Snippet:

select description from tablename where decription like '\%test'