| From: | Barracuda <cuda_fx(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Marcio Macedo <marciom(at)conectiva(dot)com(dot)br>, David Hartwig <daveh(at)insightdist(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, "S(dot)Ramaswamy" <srswamy(at)giasdl01(dot)vsnl(dot)net(dot)in> |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] How to Make Case InSensitive??? |
| Date: | 1998-09-16 13:48:10 |
| Message-ID: | 19980916134810.21155.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com |
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thank you for this tip! don't know what the ^ or the $ is used for
but the ~* and the \do helped me out a great deal. No info on this in
any documentation.
Charles
---David Hartwig <daveh(at)insightdist(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Marcio Macedo wrote:
>
> > Hey...
> >
> > How does this " ~* " operator works ?!?!?!
> >
> > David Hartwig wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > SELECT * FROM series WHERE upper(NAME) = 'INDIA'
> > > or
> > > SELECT * FROM series WHERE NAME ~* '^india$'
>
> >
>
> I don't use it myself, but it is a case insensitive regular expression
> match operator. "~' is the case sensitive operator. Do "\do" in
> psql to see all the operators.
>
>
>
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