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ramlakhanramlakhan 

How to query over a public group whose 4th letter of name is '_'

I tried indexof and charat too.But its not working.I  want to pass this query to Database.querylocator obejct of batch class.Thanks in advance!
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Shingo YamazakiShingo Yamazaki
Hi, ramlakhan

I'm Shingo.

How about this?

return Database.getQueryLocator(String.join(new List<String> {
	'SELECT',
		'Name',
	'FROM',
		'Group',
	'WHERE',
		'Name LIKE \'___\\_%\''
}, ' '));

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Shingo YamazakiShingo Yamazaki
Hi, ramlakhan

I'm Shingo.

How about this?

return Database.getQueryLocator(String.join(new List<String> {
	'SELECT',
		'Name',
	'FROM',
		'Group',
	'WHERE',
		'Name LIKE \'___\\_%\''
}, ' '));


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ramlakhanramlakhan
Hi Shingo,thanks! Its now working perfectly.
ramlakhanramlakhan
Hi Shingo, But  the query :SELECT name from group where Name LIKE '__\_%' is not retriving  anything when i am trying to check it in execute anonymous ,though it is retriving expected records while fired on query editor.Seems very strange!!.
In execute anon I am putting query as:
List<group> li=new List<group>([SELECT name from group  WHERE Name LIKE '__\_%']);
this gives empty list.
Shingo YamazakiShingo Yamazaki
Though I don't know the reason, but you need to use bind variable.

This works fine.
String key = '___\\_%';
List<Group> groups = [SELECT Name From Group WHERE Name LIKE :key];
More strangely, this query [select id, name from group where name like '___\_%'] works in Query Editor...
ramlakhanramlakhan
Thanks Shingo .Its working now.