How to use [charlist] Wildcard in android sql search

Question

I tried to search a for name that starts with a or b or c, so I used this query:

db.rawQuery("SELECT _id, name, freq FROM dicttable WHERE name LIKE '[A,B,C]%'
    ORDER BY freq DESC LIMIT 0, 8", null);

It did not give null result or fail result, it just gave empty values which means it found nothing. Can anyone guide me on this method?

Answer 1

You can't do that sort of thing with LIKE . You'll need to use GLOB like so:

...WHERE name GLOB '[ABC]*' ...

The * means anything else, so this will match any name that starts with A, B, or C and has anything else following it.