Thread: case-insensitive lookups...

is there a way to do selects /etc on fields without regard to upper/lower
case of the data in the fields?


Thanks,

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     *  Lorenzo J. Huerta                                             *
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Lorenzo Huerta wrote:

>
> is there a way to do selects /etc on fields without regard to upper/lower
> case of the data in the fields?

select * from tablename where attribute ~* 'stringvalue' ;
                                        ^^ the case insensitive regex
                                           equality operator.

Marc Zuckman
marc@fallon.classyad.com

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