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Subject: Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:48:44 +0100
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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
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