Jessica Richard wrote:
If I have a column with a value like "abc2457", "efg1234",

how do I select col from table where col like 'a[a-z]c24[0-9]7"?

How do I handle the range bracket in the query?

You can use the regular expression operator(s), like so:

    select *
    from table
    where column ~ 'a[a-z]c24[0-9]7';

For the full details: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-matching.html#AEN9312

-Jon

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