Re: Is it possible to search for sub-strings...

From: John McKown <joarmc(at)swbell(dot)net>
To: John Draper <crunch(at)webcrunchers(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to search for sub-strings...
Date: 2000-09-19 10:27:12
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0009190525520.17512-100000@linux2.johnmckown.net
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Assuming that the name of the table is "test1" and the variable containing
the values of interest is name "values", then:

SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE values LIKE 'JYR%';

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, John Draper wrote:

> Ok, I have a question... lets say I have a key fields like this...
>
> JYR-34a
> JYR-34b
> JYR-34c
> JJG-67
> jUY-89
>
> I want to do a query on a substring, such that I can get all three
> of the JYR's to come up, regardless if it has an "a", "b", or "c"
> after it. Is that possible in SQL? If so, what would the query
> look like?
>
> John
>
>

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