Cool! -deech
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:12 PM, P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/15/08, aditya siram <aditya.si...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to implement an autocompleter with a sqlite backend. Is > there a > > way to search the database using wildcards/regexps's without reading the > > entire search space into memory? > > > > For example given the rows: > > 'hello world' > > 'goodbye world' > > a query approximately like "* world" should return both. > > > > > and so it does... > > sqlite> CREATE TABLE foo (a); > sqlite> INSERT INTO foo VALUES ('hello world'); > sqlite> INSERT INTO foo VALUES ('goodbye world'); > sqlite> SELECT * FROM foo WHERE a LIKE '%world'; > hello world > goodbye world > sqlite> SELECT * FROM foo WHERE a GLOB '*world'; > hello world > goodbye world > sqlite> > > Read the docs on the difference between LIKE and GLOB > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users