RE: INSTR() like function?

Thanks much! I never even realised pg had regex built in.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 2:50 PM
To: Michael Loftis
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] INSTR() like function?

"Michael Loftis" <taos(at)activesw(dot)com> writes:
> IE are the characters A or B or C or D in the string "dogma" would be
> INSTR('ABCD','dogma');

See the regular-expression match operators (~ and ~*). The above would
be
select 'dogma'::text ~* '[ABCD]'::text;
assuming you meant you wanted case-insensitive match.

regards, tom lane