title: Codeigniter active record query only rows with first letter is not an alphabet
body: <p>I'm trying to write an active record statement where I will be able to get all rows in the database where the first letter is not equal to an alphabet.</p>
  
  <p>This is my active record query</p>
  
  <pre><code>$this-&gt;db-&gt;where("employer_name NOT LIKE '[^a-z]%'");
  return $this-&gt;db-&gt;select()-&gt;from("v_employers")-&gt;get();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the problem with my code is that it gets everything in my database</p>
  
  <p>i only want to get rows where the first letter is not an alphabet</p>
  
  <p>ex(123pencil,$helloworld,7eleven)</p>
  
  <p>and so on</p>