Whats the most efficient way to search for a sub string in SQLite?
I’m looking at the LIKE operator.
Do I have the right idea? Has this worked well for you?
http://www.sqlite.org/lang_expr.html
Thank You.
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Whats the most efficient way to search for a sub string in SQLite?
I’m looking at the LIKE operator.
Do I have the right idea? Has this worked well for you?
http://www.sqlite.org/lang_expr.html
Thank You.
Yes, use
Like. A query such as:would return any row that contained "abc" anywhere in the name column.
If the pattern you are looking for happens to contain the % or _ character, you can use the ESCAPE keyword to define an escape character to include that special character in the expression. To look for the string "somename%" (including the %), it’d look something like:
See: SQLite Language Expressions