Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
wrote:

> Companies can have slightly different titles for the same job; for example
> (using abbreviations). 'Asst Gen Mgr.', 'Env Mgr,', 'Gen Mgr,'. 'Mgr,',
> 'Plant Mgr.'
>
> I want to select all people table rows that contain these varieties. I know
> the 'like' operator uses '%' as a wildcard, but is not accepted in an 'in'
> list.
>
> Is there a way to use a multicharacter wildcard in an 'in' list?
>

Maybe regex_match() with a bunch of OR clauses.

In bash, I'd do something like:
grep -E ' ^Asst Gen Mgr.*|^Env Mgr.*|^Gen Mgr.*|^Mgr.*|^Plant Mgr..*'
foo.txt

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