| From: | Oleg Broytmann <phd(at)sun(dot)med(dot)ru> |
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| To: | Mike Barnes <strepsil(at)very(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive searches? |
| Date: | 1999-04-12 13:50:17 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.SOL2.3.96.SK.990412174656.12781A-100000@sun.med.ru |
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Hi!
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Mike Barnes wrote:
> Hiho ... I'd really like to know if anyone has any good suggestions for
> performing case insensitive searches on data in a 6.3 server using Perl. If
> there's some really obvious solution I'm missing, please club me over the
> head with it.
Make all things lowercase:
SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE lower(mycolumn) = 'mylowercasedata'
For regexp searching use ~* (case insensitive regexp).
> Mike.
>
>
Oleg.
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Oleg Broytmann http://members.xoom.com/phd2/ phd2(at)earthling(dot)net
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