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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: matthew@interaccess.com
Cc: postgres-arch@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: trouble with "like" clause
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 95 12:11:08 -0700
Message-ID: <199507061911.MAA02590@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199506281454.JAA14396@flowbee.interaccess.com>

"matthew@risetime.com" <matthew@interaccess.com> writes:
> 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.

it's a c regular expression, not a shell pattern, so just
	"[Ff][Oo][Rr][Ee][Vv][Ee][Rr]"
should work.  that, or
	".*[Ff][Oo][Rr][Ee][Vv][Ee][Rr]"
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776



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