Thread: how to ignore case

How can I do a simple select statement ignoring the case ? kinda like \i
in reg expressions ?

thanks in advance

Lori

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 13:52, lorid wrote:
> How can I do a simple select statement ignoring the case ? kinda like \i
> in reg expressions ?
>
> thanks in advance

You can use upper/lower:

select * from table where lower(somefield) like '%abc%';

or REGEX:

select * from table where lower ~* '.*abc.*';

SEe:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-POSIX-TABLE

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 14:20, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> or REGEX:
>
> select * from table where lower ~* '.*abc.*';

That second one should be:

select * from table where somefield ~* '.*abc.*';

either too much or not enough coffee

Ilike does case insensitive like I think its ~* for a case incenitive =
(might be *~)

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How can I do a simple select statement ignoring the case ? kinda like \i
in reg expressions ?

thanks in advance

Lori

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