Re: [GENERAL] LIKE (SQL operator)

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Joao Paulo Felix wrote:

> I have a table called "products" which has a field named "item" with
> following data stored:
>
> "item"
> PR1000
> PR2000
> PR3000
> PRZE10
> Lze100
> Beta
> Teta
>
> Does PostgreSQL support the SQL operator "LIKE" . I have unsuccessfully
> trying the following SQL query:
>
> (SELECT * FROM products WHERE item LIKE '*PR*')
>
> I would like to select all the rows where the field "item" has the
> substring "PR" inside it.

Yes, you would use it thusly:

SELECT * FROM products WHERE item LIKE '%PR%';

The wildcards are '%' and '_', which function the same as '*' and '?',
respectively.

Brett W. McCoy
                                        http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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