How to achieve Two way string search in column MYSQL

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Hello Everyone.
I have written a query to search for the pattern below:
a: foobar b: foo

So what I want is:

SQL

IF a Contains b OR b Contains a Then Return true.

The Query I wrote is as below:

SQL

SELECT c1 FROM table WHERE 
INSTR(CAST(c2 as UNSIGNED),CAST(c3 as UNSIGNED))
OR
INSTR(CAST(c3 as UNSIGNED),CAST(c2 as UNSIGNED));

Is there any better way to achieve this kind of two way search so that INSTR needs not to be mentioned twice?

Posted 5-Feb-15 23:35pm

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/\jmot · Answer 1 · 2015-02-06T00:12:00

try Switch case..

SQL

select 
Case 
When (a=b or b=a) then 1 else 0 
End
from Table_Name

Posted 6-Feb-15 0:12am

Updated 6-Feb-15 0:13am

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