Oracle SQL - REGEXP_LIKE contains characters other than a-z or A-Z

Question

I would like to create a query where I select all records which contain characters that are not a-z or A-Z

so something like this

SELECT * FROM mytable

Answer 1

Something like

select *
  from foo
 where regexp_like( col1, '[^[:alpha:]]' ) ;

should work

SQL> create table foo( col1 varchar2(100) );

Table created.

SQL> insert into foo values( 'abc' );

1 row created.

SQL> insert into foo values( 'abc123' );

1 row created.

SQL> insert into foo values( 'def' );

1 row created.

SQL> select *
  2    from foo
  3   where regexp_like( col1, '[^[:alpha:]]' ) ;

COL1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
abc123

Answer 2

The ^ negates a character class:

SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(column_1, '[^A-Za-z]')

Answer 3

if you want that not contains any of a-z and A-Z:

SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE NOT REGEXP_LIKE(column_1, '[A-Za-z]')

something like:

"98763045098" or "!%436%$7%$*#"

or other languages like persian, arabic and ... like this:

"خلیج فارس"

Answer 4

Try this:

select * from T_PARTNER 
where C_DISTRIBUTOR_TYPE_ID = 6 and
translate(C_PARTNER_ID, '.1234567890', '.') is null;