Can I use LIKE to achieve the following result

Something like this will be possible but your data sets are contradictory.
There is no
3 | Cat
Row in the original table..

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Subject: [GENERAL] Can I use LIKE to achieve the following result

I have the following original table :

ID | Item
=========
0 | Car1
1 | Car2
2 | Car3
3 | Cat1
4 | Cat2
5 | Cat3

I would like to return setof record, with the following :

ID | Item
=========
0 | Car1
1 | Car2
2 | Car3
3 | Cat

Is it possible to achieve using LIKE command?

Thanks and Regards
Yan Cheng CHEOK

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Hi.
You can return a set of record of that table with a sentence including the
LIKE operator, i.e.

SELECT ID, Item FROM your_table WHERE item LIKE 'Car_';

and you would get this result:

ID | Item
=========
0 | Car1
1 | Car2
2 | Car3

Take a look of the documentation in the postgresql documentation for pattern
matching:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.html

greets.
Ricardo Ramirez

2010/1/20 Harry McCarney <HMcCarney@dialecticit.com>