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Wayne Koorts
Wayne Koorts

Reputation: 11092

SQL LIKE condition to check for integer?

I am using a set of SQL LIKE conditions to go through the alphabet and list all items beginning with the appropriate letter, e.g. to get all books where the title starts with the letter "A":

SELECT * FROM books WHERE title ILIKE "A%"

That's fine for letters, but how do I list all items starting with any number? For what it's worth this is on a Postgres DB.

Upvotes: 107

Views: 252000

Answers (10)

Jayantha
Jayantha

Reputation: 2349

If you are trying to use like for int column, use CAST to varchar.
(This is Objection RawFunction query example)

.where(
      db.obj.raw("CAST(id AS varchar)"),
      "like",
      `%${data.id}%`
    )

Upvotes: 0

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 837

For those who need to find all values that contain a number (regardless of its position) you can just use:

SELECT * FROM books WHERE title ~ '[0-9]'

(tested with PostgreSQL 13.4)

Upvotes: 0

Charlie 木匠
Charlie 木匠

Reputation: 2390

Tested on PostgreSQL 9.5 :

-- only digits

select * from books where title ~ '^[0-9]*$';

or,

select * from books where title SIMILAR TO '[0-9]*';

-- start with digit

select * from books where title ~ '^[0-9]+';

Upvotes: 7

skensell
skensell

Reputation: 1451

I'm late to the party here, but if you're dealing with integers of a fixed length you can just do integer comparison:

SELECT * FROM books WHERE price > 89999 AND price < 90100;

Upvotes: 1

Vinko Vrsalovic
Vinko Vrsalovic

Reputation: 340241

PostgreSQL supports regular expressions matching.

So, your example would look like

SELECT * FROM books WHERE title ~ '^\d+ ?'

This will match a title starting with one or more digits and an optional space

Upvotes: 24

gellezzz
gellezzz

Reputation: 1253

If you want to search as string, you can cast to text like this:

SELECT * FROM books WHERE price::TEXT LIKE '123%'

Upvotes: 19

M&#225;ťa - Stitod.cz
M&#225;ťa - Stitod.cz

Reputation: 893

In PostreSQL you can use SIMILAR TO operator (more):

-- only digits
select * from books where title similar to '^[0-9]*$';
-- start with digit
select * from books where title similar to '^[0-9]%$';

Upvotes: 0

bobflux
bobflux

Reputation: 11581

Which one of those is indexable?

This one is definitely btree-indexable:

WHERE title >= '0' AND title < ':'

Note that ':' comes after '9' in ASCII.

Upvotes: 1

Johannes Weiss
Johannes Weiss

Reputation: 54031

That will select (by a regex) every book which has a title starting with a number, is that what you want?

SELECT * FROM books WHERE title ~ '^[0-9]'

if you want integers which start with specific digits, you could use:

SELECT * FROM books WHERE CAST(price AS TEXT) LIKE '123%'

or use (if all your numbers have the same number of digits (a constraint would be useful then))

SELECT * FROM books WHERE price BETWEEN 123000 AND 123999;

Upvotes: 202

Corey Porter
Corey Porter

Reputation: 1329

Assuming that you're looking for "numbers that start with 7" rather than "strings that start with 7," maybe something like

select * from books where convert(char(32), book_id) like '7%'

Or whatever the Postgres equivalent of convert is.

Upvotes: 2

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