Sql query for pattern search using wildcard

Question

I am developing an iphone app which has its backend in Sqlite. I want to search a pattern from the db table. I used the following query for that

SELECT roman,walpha FROM gurbani where walpha LIKE 'rm rs% p%'

My requirement is the results should contain first word 'rm', second word starting with 'rs' and the third word must start with 'p'.

The following is a screen shot of the result of my sql query

Here in my results the lines in walpha 3,6 and 7 are wrong, as I want the third word to be starting with the letter'p'. This is because of the use of 'rs%' in the sql query. So I tried another query as follows:

SELECT roman,walpha FROM gurbani where walpha LIKE 'rm rs p%'

But this results only the 4th line in the above screenshot. I am new in Sql. Is there any other method for search my pattern ?

Answer 1

select roman,walpha from gurbani where walpha like 'rm%rs%p%'

try this it should definitely work for your requirement.