I'm trying to use a IF...ELSE function in a MySQL WHERE statement without success.
I have this query:
SELECT id
FROM mytable
WHERE restrcountry NOT LIKE '%*nl*%'
AND (IF languages LIKE '%*nl*%', 1, 0) = 1;
Ok, this is my query with IF statement.
However, how can I use also "ELSE"?
Example, I would like to do something similar:
IF language match nl ---> select id field where language is nl
ELSE IF language NOT match nl ---> select id field where language is en
How can I do this in a MySQL query, please?
Thanks to all!
解决方案
The syntax for IF is :
IF(test_expr, then_expr, else_expr)
so you could do something like IF(test1, result1, IF(test2, result2, else_result)) but it would not be very readable, so there's the CASE expression for that purpose.
CASE WHEN test1 THEN result1
WHEN test2 THEN result2
ELSE else_result END
If you want to condition a select column, you can use the IF in the select fields directly:
SELECT IF(match, nl_column en_column) AS lang
FROM table
Note that an expression in a where clause is either TRUE or FALSE, so writing
IF(expr, TRUE, FALSE)
is the same as
expr