Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list

Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>

From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-11-25T19:05:34Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Tue, 25 Nov 2025, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Maybe regex_match() with a bunch of OR clauses.
>
> In bash, I'd do something like:
> grep -E ' ^Asst Gen Mgr.*|^Env Mgr.*|^Gen Mgr.*|^Mgr.*|^Plant Mgr..*'
> foo.txt

Ron,

I've not used regex in postgres before, only in emacs and small languages.
So I'll learn how to do this. I was trying to avoid multiple OR clauses, but
that script will not be run often so it should not matter.

Thanks,

Rich