Wildcards in column name for MySQL

Question

I am trying to select multiple columns, but not all of the columns, from the database. All of the columns I want to select are going to start with \"word\".

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Answer 1

This could be helpful: MySQL wildcard in select

In conclusion it is not possible in MySQL directly.

What you could do as a dirty workaround is get all the column names from the table with an initial query (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/show-columns.html) and then compare in python if the name matches your pattern. Afterwards you could do the MySQL select statement with the found column names like this:

SELECT word1, word2, word3 from searchterms where onstate = 1;