Re: Seeking rows whit \

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Francisco Reyes <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com>
wrote:

> Is there a way to search for rows with the character \?
>
> I tried variants of like and ~.
>
> create table mytable (f1 text);
> insert into mytable values ('Test row 1');
> insert into mytable values (E'Test row 2 \\');
>
> select * from mytable where f1 like E'%\\%'; <-- returned nothing
> select * from mytable where f1 ~ '\'; <-- waiting for single quote
> select * from mytable where f1 ~ E'\\'; <-- Error
>
> And a few more variants.. with no valid reults.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
It is well documented. Quoting from
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-LIKE

Thus, writing a pattern that actually matches a literal backslash means
writing four backslashes in the statement.

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