Massa, Harald Armin wrote:
> yes, there is.
>
> select <your columns> from <your table> where
>
> <your_text_search_column> like '%'||chr(x'42'::int)||'%'
This does not work for me, but if I convert the hex value to octal this
does work:
select comments from fax where comments ~* E'\231';
>
> where '42' is your hexadecimal character value.
>
> Be sure to read and understand everything you can find about encodings;
> and make sure the hexadecimal value you are searching for is from the
> same encoding.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Harald
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 16:00, Geoffrey Myers
> <lists@serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to search for a character in the database by the
> hexidecimal value of that character?
>
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