On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:33:07 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Companies can have slightly different titles for the same job; for example > (using abbreviations). 'Asst Gen Mgr.', 'Env Mgr,', 'Gen Mgr,'. 'Mgr,', > 'Plant Mgr.' > > I want to select all people table rows that contain these varieties. I know > the 'like' operator uses '%' as a wildcard, but is not accepted in an 'in' > list. > > Is there a way to use a multicharacter wildcard in an 'in' list? > Hi Rich, As Ron wrote, a regexp would do it, I guess? SELECT * FROM people WHERE title ~ 'Asst Gen Mgr|Env Mgr|Gen Mgr|Mgr|Plant Mgr'; Although in your example, you would get the same result with just: SELECT * FROM people WHERE title ~ 'Mgr'; https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-POSIX-REGEXP -- Bien à vous, Vincent Veyron https://marica.fr/ Logiciel de suivi des contentieux juridiques, des sinistres d'assurance et des contrats
