This worked, thank you so much; I'm still stuck in Oracle mode. Thank you to everyone that responded.
Thanks,
-- Merlin
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From: Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2021 10:05 AM
To: Tchouante, Merlin <mtchouan@umaryland.edu>
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Subject: Re: Like Command returning wrong result set
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> On Aug 5, 2021, at 07:00, Tchouante, Merlin <mtchouan@umaryland.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello group,
>
> I’m writing a script and a bit confused on the results with the like command.
>
> gm.title like 'CP_%'
>
> The above command gives me records with titles like CP_40, CP_2, CP_23, etc.
>
> gm.title like '%_CT'
Somewhat confusingly, '_' is the single-character wildcard for SQL's LIKE operation:
xof=# SELECT 'A' LIKE '_';
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)
You can escape it to search for it literally:
xof=# SELECT '_' LIKE '\_';
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)
xof=# SELECT 'A' LIKE '\_';
?column?
----------
f
(1 row)