Re: case insensitive search

I also use the ~* operator for situations like these

select * from table
where field ~* 'searchterm'
and ....

Tim.

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03/15/2002 12:36 PM

Have you looked in the manual?

Try: 'where ILIKE 'searchword';

At 12:01 PM +0530 3/15/02, arun kv wrote:
>hello,
> how to do a case insensitive search on postgresql database. i will
>enter a keyword in text field and it has to search for that keyword in
>keywords field of table and should be case insensitive.
>
>can i use egrei() function. if so how.here two attributes should be
>strings. but first attribute i will get from previous php page and second
>attribute is field name of database table. how do i do this.
> pls help me
> thanking you
> Arun
>
>
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