| From: | "tjk(at)tksoft(dot)com" <tjk(at)tksoft(dot)com> |
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| To: | jkarlen(at)karlen(dot)com (Jonathan Karlen) |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] Accent Marks |
| Date: | 1999-12-05 18:03:58 |
| Message-ID: | 199912051803.KAA10642@uno.tksoft.com |
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Jonathan,
You could write a custom function which handles the
searches for you, allowing i and i w/ an accent, for example, to
be handled as the same character. When implementing regular
expressions, one creates a pattern which can be used for
matching against strings. In your situation, you
could create a function which takes your string and
creates a pattern out of it, or to make things easier, just
accept the string as input and convert it to a string
which can be converted to a regular expression pattern
by Postgres.
E.g. you would accept your search string as input, and
find all i's in it, replacing them with "[iACCENTEDI]"
so that when a search is done, either of the i's qualifies.
There are more efficient ways of doing this, but this
would probably work for you.
Troy
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