Question

I want to concat two columns in sqlite and perform a search on the concat column. Is this possible?

Cursor mCursor = db.rawQuery(
                "SELECT user_id,firstname,lastname, \"firstname\" || \"lastname\" AS val FROM "
                        + TABLE_DIRECTORY + " where val ='%" + text + "%'",
                null);

using sqlite and android

Answer 1

Try this

   Cursor mCursor = db.rawQuery(
        "SELECT user_id,firstname,lastname, \"firstname\" || \"lastname\" AS val FROM "
                + TABLE_DIRECTORY + " where \"firstname\" || \"lastname\" LIKE '%" + text + "%'",
        null);