Re: [GENERAL] Wild Cards

2001-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick 

Adam Haberlach wrote:
  On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:40:23AM -0500, No Name wrote:
   I am not able to get Wildcards in PostgreSQL, I know its * (asterisk), but
   its not working. can someone show me a example or something?
  
  It's % and you have to use the LIKE operator.
  
  SELECT * FROM thistable WHERE name LIKE '%marley';
 
Alternatively use regular expressions as with grep:

   SELECT * FROM thistable WHERE name ~* 'scrooge$'

~  is regular expression match
~* is case-insensitive regular expression match

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Re: [GENERAL] Wild Cards

2001-01-26 Thread Adam Haberlach 

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:40:23AM -0500, No Name wrote:
 I am not able to get Wildcards in PostgreSQL, I know its * (asterisk), but
 its not working. can someone show me a example or something?

It's % and you have to use the LIKE operator.

SELECT * FROM thistable WHERE name LIKE '%marley';

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