SQL guru needed

"FAH" == Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <felipe@qlsoft.cl> writes:

FAH> Hi,

FAH> i wonder if it is possible to do something like

FAH> SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE foobar IN ( 'some_regular_expresion1',
FAH> 'some_regular_expresion2', ... )

My mind: this is impossible in Postgres. Pehaps

SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE
foobar ~ 'some_regular_expresion1' or
foobar ~ 'some_regular_expresion2' or
foobar ~ 'some_regular_expresion3'

is your goal?

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Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:

i wonder if it is possible to do something like

SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE foobar IN ( 'some_regular_expresion1',
'some_regular_expresion2', ... )

Well, I'm not exactly a SQL guru, but I hope it helps you:

SELECT foo FROM bar
WHERE
foobar LIKE 'some_regular_expression1' OR
foobar LIKE 'some_regular_expression2' OR
...

Read the User Guide you can find in http://www.PostgreSQL.org/ - regular
expressions in SQL are a little different from the traditional regular
expressions you can find in UNIX or DOS.

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