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From: matthew@risetime.com <matthew@interaccess.com>
To: postgres <postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: trouble with "like" clause
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:54:39 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <199506281454.JAA14396@flowbee.interaccess.com> (raw)

I want to be able to do a substring case-insensitive search on a text field.

So far I have:
	SELECT * from Movies WHERE MovieName ~ "[Bb][Aa][Tt]*"

Which will make macthes with "Batman Forever".  If I instead enter in
"Forever" I should also make a matche, however, change the where clause to
"*[Ff][Oo][Rr][Ee][Vv][Ee][Rr]" failes to find a match.

What the correct syntax for that?

- mz

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