Re: Who do I make _ not a wildcard? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Who do I make _ not a wildcard?
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Msg-id 200107300338.f6U3cMr25435@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Who do I make _ not a wildcard?  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
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I also think two underscores make a literal underscore.  Same with %.

> On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Roy Souther wrote:
> 
> > In PG the _ is a wildcard that means any singal char. I need to do a search 
> > for the actual _ char and not get back thousands of wrong matches. Is there 
> > and escape char that I could use? This needs to work with PG 7.0.3 & 7.1.2.
> 
> \\_ should work for a literal escape.
> At least on current sources you can do something like:
>  like 'blah!_%' escape '!'
> where ! becomes the escape character for the string.
> 
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