Re: [GENERAL] Sql query with partial matching

[Steve Heaven]

At 14:58 07/12/00 -0500, Travis Bauer wrote:
>How would I write an sql statement which would select all the
>records from a table where some string field contains
>some substring?  Example: find all the records where f1 contains
>the world "cool."

select * from table where f1 ~ 'cool';

or case insensitive 

select * from table where f1 ~* 'cool';

Steve

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