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Old May 8th, 2008, 01:50 AM
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WHERE xxx IN() with wildcard?
Hello everyone,
is there a way to use wildcards in a WHERE IN() clause? i.e. SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar IN ('value%','wert%'))
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Do you have to use IN ...? Why not WHERE bar LIKE 'value%' OR bar LIKE 'wert%'?
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Old May 8th, 2008, 06:55 AM
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Yeah, otherwise the queries would turn out to be miles long. I tried my luck with REGEXP now and it seems to work fine ...
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Would you mind sharing the solution?
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Sure.

SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar REGEXP 'value[[:alpha:]]|wert[[:alpha:]]'

[[:alpha:]] is for any alphanumeric combination and | is OR.
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