Re: select exact term

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Marc Fromm <Marc(dot)Fromm(at)wwu(dot)edu> wrote:

> Is there a way to create a select statement that will select a record if
> the exact term is found in a field that contains the text to describe
> something?****
>
> ** **
>
> If I create a select statement using WHERE description LIKE ‘art’ I get
> every record that has words like depart, start and so on.****
>
> If I create a select statement using WHERE description = ‘art’ I get no
> results even though the word art is in some records description field.
>

Use a regular expression instead of LIKE, and the left- and
right-word-boundary expressions (see section 9.7 of the Postgres manual):

db=> select 'the quick brown fox' ~ '[[:<:]]brown[[:>:]]';
?column?
----------
t

=> select 'the quick brown fox' ~ '[[:<:]]own[[:>:]]';
?column?
----------
f

Craig