Question

I have an app that is acting like a dictionary and now I need a bit help.

I would like to use regex in SQLite when trying to find words, but regex is user function so it’s not supported directly by SQLite.

The idea is that app should find all words that are created from letters for example ‘a e b i p’ and it should return words like babe, abe, pie, etc.

Any help would be appreciated.

So to be more clear, I would like to do a select statement with like that returns all words containing letters a, e, b, i and p but not to be limited on word length, so that I receive word be as well as die and pie even if letter b i is not present in those last two.

Sorry for inconvenience I caused with not properly formulated question.

Answer 1

Have you tried using GLOB?

SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE wordname GLOB "*[aebip]*"