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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Gauthier, Dave
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:37 PM
To: John R Pierce; PostgreSQL
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] How to use like with a list
The example was a general case. It won't be jo and mo and fo. In fact, the
values will be stored in a csv perl scalar.
If you know perl...
$str = "jo,mo,do,fo";
Using DBI, I need to "prepare" a query that will accept a string like the
one above.
So...
select name,age,weight from people_table where name ~ '^(' || replace(?,
',', '|') || ')l'
but it doesn't work :-(
bi_dev=# create table test (name text);
CREATE TABLE
bi_dev=# insert into test (name) values
('jolly'),('frenchie'),('dollymadison');
INSERT 0 3
bi_dev=# select name from test where name ~ '^(' || replace('jo,mo,do,fo',
',', '|') || ')l';
ERROR: argument of WHERE must be type boolean, not type text
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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:23 PM
To: PostgreSQL
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] How to use like with a list
On 11/18/11 12:18 PM, Richard Broersma wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:13 PM, John R Pierce<pierce@hogranch.com>
wrote:
>
>> > where field ~ '^(jo|mo|do|fo)'
> Don't forget to add the l as the end:
>
> where field ~ '^(jo|mo|do|fo)l'
ah, yeah, that.
and to complete the original requirement...
where field ~ '^(' || replace(?, ',', '|') || ')l'
btw, no need for a .* on the end, since the regex isn't anchored at the end
with a $
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It looks as if the WHERE clause is resulting in:
WHERE ( ( name ~ '^(' ) || replace ... )
But you want:
WHERE ( name ~ ( '^(' || replace ... ) )
Add parentheses to make explicit what you want to do first ( i.e., the
concatenation; then the regular expression ).
David J.
