Jessica Richard wrote:
> If I have a column with a value like "abc2457", "efg1234",
>
> how do I select col from table where col like 'a[a-z]c24[0-9]7"?
>
> How do I handle the range bracket in the query?
You can use the regular expression operator(s), like so:
select *
from table
where column ~ 'a[a-z]c24[0-9]7';
For the full details:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-matching.html#AEN9312
-Jon
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