I have a string comparison that I would like to do against a short
list of constant strings.
at the moment I am using the syntax
SELECT id FROM t1 WHERE name IN('s1', 's2', 's3', ...);
However, this limits me to exact matches and I'd like to move to a
caparison expersion that lets me match names that contain any of the
list. The MySQL docs state that 'IN()' is an alias to '= ANY()'
however when I substitute' = ANY' for IN I get a parse error. What
I'd like to do is write something like (although I figure there may
be a better way to do the comparison that I am not thinking of):
SELECT id FROM t1 WHERE name LIKE ANY('%s1%', '%s2%', '%s3%', ...);
Does anyone know a way to do this?
Thanks,
->Ben
