Marc Fromm <marc.fr...@wwu.edu> writes:
> I am struggling with the syntax. In php I create my where clause as shown,
> using ~* for case insensitive:
> $search = "art";
> $strSQL2 = "WHERE (title ~* [[:<:]]'$search'[[:>:]] OR description ~*
> [[:<:]]'$search'[[:>:]]) ";
> When executed zero records are returned even though the ILIKE statement shown
> below returns records that do have the word art.
Your php app must not be bothering to check for errors :-( ... that's
invalid SQL syntax. The bracket constructs are part of the regexp
string and need to be inside the single quotes.
regards, tom lane
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