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SIMILAR TO issue


severndigital

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I know most of this issue is me not knowing how to use SIMILAR TO and regex so any help would be great.

 

I am trying to match a product title entered into a search field with titles already in a database.

 

for example in the database the title is "Robocop"

 

when I look up another title say ... "Robocop Blu-Ray" or "Robocop (The Criterion Collection)" or "Prime Directives Robocop Series"

 

how can I get it to return a match?

 

Thanks in advance.

C

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  • 5 months later...

Sounds like you can get away with a simple LIKE statement:

 

WHERE title LIKE '%' || your_string_here || '%'

 

The % signs are wildcards and the || signs append the who thing together to become '%Robocop%'

 

Note however that LIKE statements that start with a wildcard can be very slow because the database cannot use indexes to eliminate records that cannot possibly match.

FULLTEXT may be a better solution, but is (a little) more complex to setup

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