[ADMIN]substring check function

ÀÌÀ±¿µ writes:
 > hi all!
 > coding a database search program on web,
 > i want to have that pg to find tuples including
 > the string that a user inputs.
 > how can i do?
 > Does Postgres supply built-in function such like strstr()
 > in C ?
 > I'm wating you.
 > ------------------------------------------------------
 >                 Yoon-young Lee from Korea
 >                 ~~m..m~~

    You can use the SQL "like" operator and do something like:

select *
from table
where field like '%somestring%'

    The "%" == zero or more of any character.

Jonathan
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Jonathan H. Wheaton
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