Re: Wild Cards

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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