Numeric Wildcards

Please Help!!!!
I was wondering if anyone knew of a wildcard to look at only numeric. For example...
'Not like 4%' is a statement that only looks at 4... numbers. This will bring back 4100 numbers and 4X10 number which we have both of, but I want only the 4100 numbers.
But what I want it to do is have two spaces with a wildcard that will look and make sure they are numeric. The only two wildcards I know are _ (underscore) and % (percent sign). Both of
these wildcards look at both charector and numeric. I don't know if I explained this well enough, so let me know.
Thanks
Shelby

The pattern matching can be done in either way.
1) through like operator
2) using instr function
Your question is, the pattern search should happen only for numeric values and not for alpha-numeric values.
This you can do by altering the query by adding additional where clause to filter out numeric values only.

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