MySQL Case in Select Statement with LIKE operator
Is it possible to combine the CASE statement and the LIKE operator in a MySQL SELECT statement? For Example, I am trying to query a database that stores data in a single column in either one of two formats (this is awful and hurts my head, but I cant change the data so it is what it is.). So sometimes the column numbers would have data like "6901xxxxxxxx" and sometimes it would have data like "91xxxxxxxxxxx". What I would like to do is query the data like so - SELECT CASE digits WHEN LIKE "6901%" THEN substr(digits,4) WHEN LIKE "91%" THEN substr(digits,2) END as "digits", FROM raw This